legends

[Bob Paige <bo...@gmail.com>]

I saw an interesting wiki markup feature on FlexWiki this morning and wonder
the simplest way to implement something similar on JSPWiki.

The effect is to display an HTML legend (
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_legend.asp). They used it to frame a list
of links or box of text. Similar to the %%information%% and %%warning%%
styles, I guess.

The markup was pretty simple:

Some_Legend_Caption: whatever I want listed in the box, [even links]

So the syntax seemed to be any single word followed by a ':' was displayed
as a legend.

Can we add legends through a new CSS style? I'm not familiar enough with CSS
to know if this is doable.

The obvious solution would be to write a plugin that would probably look
like this:

[{Legend title='this is  my title' whatever content I want here}]

Thoughts?

-- 
Bobman

Re: legends

[Dirk Frederickx <di...@gmail.com>]

As far as I know, the <fieldset> and <legend> elements are perfectly
supported by IE6.
There are some css issues, but using the standard styling should be fine.

I'd rather build this 'legend' thingy into the current %%commentbox style,
to avoid to many new dynamic style variants.

%%commentbox:  floating box at the left of the screen
%%commentbox-MyTitle:  floating box with a 'legend' kind of title style
%%commentbox-MyTitle-nofloat:   non-floating



dirk


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Janne Jalkanen
<ja...@ecyrd.com>wrote:

>
> Yes, so this is something which we might want to consider for 3.0 (but not
> 2.x, since that still supports IE6).
>
> /Janne
>
>
> On 21 Feb 2009, at 00:24, Andrew Jaquith wrote:
>
>  Yeah, but we're done with IE6, no? :)
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Janne Jalkanen
>> <ja...@ecyrd.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I can't figure out a way to do this easily with pure CSS.  With
>>> Javascript
>>> rewriting yes (we do that already for a few elements), but not pure CSS.
>>>
>>> Of course, quick googling shows that the <legend> -element seems to enjoy
>>> rather variable support, especially in older browsers (including IE6).
>>>
>>> /Janne
>>>
>>> On 20 Feb 2009, at 15:41, Bob Paige wrote:
>>>
>>>  I saw an interesting wiki markup feature on FlexWiki this morning and
>>>> wonder
>>>> the simplest way to implement something similar on JSPWiki.
>>>>
>>>> The effect is to display an HTML legend (
>>>> http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_legend.asp). They used it to frame a
>>>> list
>>>> of links or box of text. Similar to the %%information%% and %%warning%%
>>>> styles, I guess.
>>>>
>>>> The markup was pretty simple:
>>>>
>>>> Some_Legend_Caption: whatever I want listed in the box, [even links]
>>>>
>>>> So the syntax seemed to be any single word followed by a ':' was
>>>> displayed
>>>> as a legend.
>>>>
>>>> Can we add legends through a new CSS style? I'm not familiar enough with
>>>> CSS
>>>> to know if this is doable.
>>>>
>>>> The obvious solution would be to write a plugin that would probably look
>>>> like this:
>>>>
>>>> [{Legend title='this is  my title' whatever content I want here}]
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bobman
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

Re: legends

[Janne Jalkanen <ja...@ecyrd.com>]

Yes, so this is something which we might want to consider for 3.0 (but  
not 2.x, since that still supports IE6).

/Janne

On 21 Feb 2009, at 00:24, Andrew Jaquith wrote:

> Yeah, but we're done with IE6, no? :)
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Janne Jalkanen
> <ja...@ecyrd.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can't figure out a way to do this easily with pure CSS.  With  
>> Javascript
>> rewriting yes (we do that already for a few elements), but not pure  
>> CSS.
>>
>> Of course, quick googling shows that the <legend> -element seems to  
>> enjoy
>> rather variable support, especially in older browsers (including  
>> IE6).
>>
>> /Janne
>>
>> On 20 Feb 2009, at 15:41, Bob Paige wrote:
>>
>>> I saw an interesting wiki markup feature on FlexWiki this morning  
>>> and
>>> wonder
>>> the simplest way to implement something similar on JSPWiki.
>>>
>>> The effect is to display an HTML legend (
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_legend.asp). They used it to  
>>> frame a
>>> list
>>> of links or box of text. Similar to the %%information%% and % 
>>> %warning%%
>>> styles, I guess.
>>>
>>> The markup was pretty simple:
>>>
>>> Some_Legend_Caption: whatever I want listed in the box, [even links]
>>>
>>> So the syntax seemed to be any single word followed by a ':' was  
>>> displayed
>>> as a legend.
>>>
>>> Can we add legends through a new CSS style? I'm not familiar  
>>> enough with
>>> CSS
>>> to know if this is doable.
>>>
>>> The obvious solution would be to write a plugin that would  
>>> probably look
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> [{Legend title='this is  my title' whatever content I want here}]
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bobman
>>
>>

Re: legends

[Andrew Jaquith <an...@gmail.com>]

Yeah, but we're done with IE6, no? :)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Janne Jalkanen
<ja...@ecyrd.com> wrote:
>
> I can't figure out a way to do this easily with pure CSS.  With Javascript
> rewriting yes (we do that already for a few elements), but not pure CSS.
>
> Of course, quick googling shows that the <legend> -element seems to enjoy
> rather variable support, especially in older browsers (including IE6).
>
> /Janne
>
> On 20 Feb 2009, at 15:41, Bob Paige wrote:
>
>> I saw an interesting wiki markup feature on FlexWiki this morning and
>> wonder
>> the simplest way to implement something similar on JSPWiki.
>>
>> The effect is to display an HTML legend (
>> http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_legend.asp). They used it to frame a
>> list
>> of links or box of text. Similar to the %%information%% and %%warning%%
>> styles, I guess.
>>
>> The markup was pretty simple:
>>
>> Some_Legend_Caption: whatever I want listed in the box, [even links]
>>
>> So the syntax seemed to be any single word followed by a ':' was displayed
>> as a legend.
>>
>> Can we add legends through a new CSS style? I'm not familiar enough with
>> CSS
>> to know if this is doable.
>>
>> The obvious solution would be to write a plugin that would probably look
>> like this:
>>
>> [{Legend title='this is  my title' whatever content I want here}]
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Bobman
>
>

Re: legends

[Janne Jalkanen <ja...@ecyrd.com>]

I can't figure out a way to do this easily with pure CSS.  With  
Javascript rewriting yes (we do that already for a few elements), but  
not pure CSS.

Of course, quick googling shows that the <legend> -element seems to  
enjoy rather variable support, especially in older browsers (including  
IE6).

/Janne

On 20 Feb 2009, at 15:41, Bob Paige wrote:

> I saw an interesting wiki markup feature on FlexWiki this morning  
> and wonder
> the simplest way to implement something similar on JSPWiki.
>
> The effect is to display an HTML legend (
> http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_legend.asp). They used it to frame  
> a list
> of links or box of text. Similar to the %%information%% and %%warning 
> %%
> styles, I guess.
>
> The markup was pretty simple:
>
> Some_Legend_Caption: whatever I want listed in the box, [even links]
>
> So the syntax seemed to be any single word followed by a ':' was  
> displayed
> as a legend.
>
> Can we add legends through a new CSS style? I'm not familiar enough  
> with CSS
> to know if this is doable.
>
> The obvious solution would be to write a plugin that would probably  
> look
> like this:
>
> [{Legend title='this is  my title' whatever content I want here}]
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -- 
> Bobman