Re: Add A Glossary - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Add A Glossary
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Msg-id 20200405220715.GA20664@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Add A Glossary  (Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>)
Responses Re: Add A Glossary  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2020-Apr-05, Fabien COELHO wrote:

> > > As the definitions are short and to the point, maybe the HTML display
> > > could (also) "hover" the definitions when the mouse passes over the word,
> > > using the "title" attribute?
> > 
> > I like that idea, if it doesn't conflict with accessibility standards
> > (maybe that's just titles on images, not sure).
> 
> The following worked fine:
> 
>   <html><head><title>Title Tag Test</title></head>
>   <body>The <a href="acid.html" title="ACID stands for Atomic, Consistent, Isolated & Durable">ACID</a>
>   property is great.
>   </body></html>

I don't see myself patching the stylesheet as would be needed to do
this.

> > I suggest we pursue this idea in another thread, as we'd probably want to
> > do it for acronyms as well.
> 
> Or not. I'd test committer temperature before investing time because it
> would mean that backpatching the doc would be a little harder.

TBH I can't get very excited about this idea.  Maybe other documentation
champions would be happier about doing that.

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