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@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ My best regards,
 >>
 >> Thanks for the hint! I don't know CSS3 yet :) What modern and popular
 >> WWW browsers do support it now?
+>>
+>>> Safari supports it. Firefoz&Co support most of it. IE6 did not, but IE7
+>>> supports a fair part of CSS3, ans is said to support selectors.
+>>>
+>>> Example on how to use selectors here: http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2002/08/30/external
+>>>
+>>> I also think this should be in an external plugin, not in ikiwiki.
+>>>
+
+I find CSS3 support still spotty...  Here are some notes on how to do this in IkiWiki with jQuery: <http://iki.u32.net/setup/External_Links> --[[sabr]]
 
 > If you need to achieve this in IkiWiki itself, I imagine you could create a
 > plugin which runs in the `format` phase of rendering and search/replaces
@@ -53,4 +63,41 @@ My best regards,
 
 >> I've never written plugin for ikiwiki, but I can try if it's simple job :)
 >>
->> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
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+>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+> I wouldn't mind adding a _single_ css class to ikiwiki links, but it
+> would have to be a class added to all internal, not all external, links.
+> Reason is that there are many ways for external links to get into an
+> ikiwiki page, including being entered as raw html. The only time ikiwiki
+> controls a link is when an internal link is added using a WikiLink.
+>
+> (Note that tags get their own special
+> [[rel_attribute|rel_attribute_for_links]] now that CSS can use.)
+> 
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I had a little look at this, last weekend. I added a class definition to
+>> the `htmllink` call in `linkify` in `link.pm`. It works pretty well, but
+>> I'd also need to adjust other `htmllink` calls (map, inline, etc.). I found
+>> other methods (CSS3 selectors, etc.) to be unreliable.
+>> 
+>> Would you potentially accept a patch that added `class="internal"` to
+>> various `htmllink` calls in ikiwiki?
+>> 
+>> How configurable do you think this behaviour should be? I'm considering a
+>> config switch to enable or disable this behaviour, or possibly a
+>> configurable list of class names to append for internal links (defaulting
+>> to an empty list for backwards compatibility)>
+>> 
+>> As an alternative to patching the uses of `htmllink`, what do you think
+>> about patching `htmllink` itself? Are there circumstances where it might be
+>> used to generate a non-internal link? -- [[Jon]]
+
+>>> I think that the minimum configurability to get something that
+>>> can be used by CSS to style the links however the end user wants
+>>> is the best thing to shoot for. Ideally, no configurability. And
+>>> a tip or something documenting how to use the classes in your CSS
+>>> to style links so that eg, external links have a warning icon.
+>>> 
+>>> `htmllink` can never be used to generate an external link. So,
+>>> patching it seems the best approach. --[[Joey]]