Re: On the Road to version 1.0


Subject: Re: On the Road to version 1.0
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 16:14:40 CST


On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:

> Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > > * Bookmarks (which are, as far as I can tell, are invisible after insertion)
> >
> > Bookmarks are just tags to a specific place in a document
> > (placeholders). You then make a hyperlink that goes to a bookmark. In
> > HTML, this'd look like:
> >
> > <a name="bookmark1" />
> > text....
> > <a href="#bookmark1">Take me to bookmark 1 please!</a>
>
> Yeah, but WHERE are they? I have to save the file and look at the xml to
> remember which paragraph I attached them too. How do I find them to delete them?
>
> It's a UI issue, not a functionality issue.
>
> -Bryce
>
>
> PS: I might be able to figure out that I turn on "show paragraphs" to see the bookmarks,
> will most users?
>
> Little bits of graphics are left on the screen by "show paragraphs". The point was that
> maybe bookmarks are a feature that's perfectly good, and on the road to success, but
> not quite done at this time. What's the policy for "good features not ready yet"
> for 1.0? In, out, or heroic effort to fix them?

We fix bugs in the current implementation unless we decide they're not
worth the effort.

That is what these next 6 weeks are for.

Cheers

Martin



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