On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Jason Boyd wrote:
I think what I'm getting at is that to really be useful, it ought
to scan
the document for <code> elements, then parse the text of these nodes,
applying styles (or adding classed <span> tags or whatever) to the
words
based on a look-up of keywords, and syntax checking etc. This way,
it truly
could be used on any page that uses <code> to show code, and could
be easily
extended to allow users to specify which language to use (AS, Java,
etc).
Would make a nifty extension for Mozilla-based browsers, for
instance. If
you don't have all the skills to put together these pieces, would
be a good
project for SourceForge or something.
Well, if you want to send the whole HTML page to Flash to have it
syntax highlighted then sent back to html ... then maybe you could do
that.
IV's tool works by re-write of a DIV layer that is properly named. It
just snags the HTML source, parses it and outputs it back. Simple
string parsing actually.
It's a neat idea, as an experiment, but not for broad acceptance imho.
At that point, might as well just use Flash to display the syntax
highlighting itself without using any overflow CSS tags for scrolling
and stuff. But that already exists...
cheers,
jon
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