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guslThe Wikipedia manages to do some cool rendering in its HTML files:
The code
gets rendered with a tiny image of a little arrow that indicates external links, as seen here ...and I can't even find the URL of this tiny image.
However, if the URL in the HREF points to an internal page, the arrow is removed. How are they performing this magic? CSS?
What I call "smart linking" is putting a little image to give useful information about what is behind it (i.e. the link's reference), especially quality information, based on the linked page's self-assessment. In order to help you save your clicks, this tiny image would give useful information about the linked page:
* how big it is (in case you're ready to dismiss stub articles)
* how complete it is (this requires meta-tags)
* how rough
* whether it provides academic references
* etc.
I intend to use this in my own wiki, to distinguished good notebooks (that I'm proud of) from the ones that are still being worked on.
The implementation of this would probably involve defining CSS classes, but this could lead to combinatorial explosion, if I want the links to be able to display several icons.
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< a href="http://kybele.escet.urjc.es/PHISE05/papers/sesionII/Priestly.pdf" class='external text' title="http://kybele.escet.urjc.es/PHISE05/papers/sesionII/Priestly.pdf" > 1 < /a >
gets rendered with a tiny image of a little arrow that indicates external links, as seen here ...and I can't even find the URL of this tiny image.
However, if the URL in the HREF points to an internal page, the arrow is removed. How are they performing this magic? CSS?
What I call "smart linking" is putting a little image to give useful information about what is behind it (i.e. the link's reference), especially quality information, based on the linked page's self-assessment. In order to help you save your clicks, this tiny image would give useful information about the linked page:
* how big it is (in case you're ready to dismiss stub articles)
* how complete it is (this requires meta-tags)
* how rough
* whether it provides academic references
* etc.
I intend to use this in my own wiki, to distinguished good notebooks (that I'm proud of) from the ones that are still being worked on.
The implementation of this would probably involve defining CSS classes, but this could lead to combinatorial explosion, if I want the links to be able to display several icons.