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From: Tom Cloud <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Web page question
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:42:00 -0500
References: <001401c44d81$703c5aa0$690a0441@DESKTOP><000501c44d83$c335bd30$c53cfea9@jimsdesktop>
In-Reply-To: <000501c44d83$c335bd30$c53cfea9@jimsdesktop>


Jim,

Were I to write a program to convert your notes to html, how
would I know whether you wanted your http://.... references
turned into links? Further, how would I know they were valid
references (e.g. what I typed above is invalid). And, if we're
going to do http links, how about "mailto:" email links?

.... IOW, I'm saying I can understand from a programming perspective
how it would be difficult to convert http references to html links,
.... especially how to be certain I wasn't creating problems rather
than useful links. Too much is left up to the creator of the source
notes ... the programmer would have to do syntax checking to verify
that the http URL was meaningful -- and then he would also have to
rely on all users of his software to understand how the links were
to be used in web creation, and for all of them to enter the URLs
with proper syntax.

I would like to see some sort of standard notation that we could
insert to indicate we wanted a particular http URL reference to
be converted to an html link .... maybe enclosing it in brackets
or something like that ???

Maybe:

%link=http:||makebelieve.url
or
{http:||makebelieve.url}



At 01:09 PM 6/8/2004, Jim Mahan <> wrote:
> Oh,,,,,,, you want to work from with-In Rootsmagic playing with the
>notes. You got me then. I just don't know enough about html either. When
>I want to ref to a photo or something I use Frontpage 98 to send the visitor
>there. From the webpage they may be visiting at the time.
> Hopefully Bruce has been watching this Thread and contribute to the
>discussion whether it is possible or not, he may be limited in doing this
>because of Patents and such. As he is in photo types.
>
>Jim



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