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diff --git a/doc/todo/infoboxes.mdwn b/doc/todo/infoboxes.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 293cd66b8..000000000 --- a/doc/todo/infoboxes.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -# thoughts on infoboxes - -I was thinking about adding a [[preprocessordirective]] to make it easy to -add an info box. Something like: - - \[[infobox "text here"]] - -But it seems it would be better if multi-line text could be put inside, -maybe expanding the syntax a bit: - - \[[infobox " - text here - and here - etc. - "]] - -This would just wrap the text up in a span element that was styled to float -to the right, with a border, the way info boxes do on some wikis. - -However, as I thought about it some more, I realized that this would be -just as easy to type: - - <span id=infobox> - text here - </span> - -Why invent new syntax, after all? I see no reason to for something this -simple. - -However, maybe in the more complex case, this would be useful. If the -infobox filled in a kind of template: - - \[[infobox type=person name="Joey Hess" email=joey@kitenet.net url="http://kitenet.net/~joey/" description=" - Joey is the author of ikiwiki and some other stuff. *Yay*! - "]] - -That might be a lot more useful. Or here's one to use to describe ikiwiki's -own plugins: - - \[[infobox type=plugin name="sidebar" author="Tuomo Valkonen" core=no]] - -This would expand by filling out the template page, which would be -infobox/person or infobox/plugin, or whatever, and would have some syntax -(possibly HTML::Template, if it's secure) for testing for values and -embedding variables. Of course it would register a dependency on its -template so changes to the template update all the pages. - -(Since it's a preprocessor directive, the big multiline blocks of text can -mix markdown (or whatever) with html, wikilinks, etc, in a natural way, -which is nice..) |