From: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:50:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: I think this is better done client-side X-Git-Tag: 3.20111107~70 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/56b896f83549dd05fa8a440d72f99ece24d7b536?hp=73d094cf0c264fcdca66baa65f5d8f8836865a9e I think this is better done client-side --- diff --git a/doc/todo/hyphenation.mdwn b/doc/todo/hyphenation.mdwn index be1eebcb8..5b4aaf5c9 100644 --- a/doc/todo/hyphenation.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/hyphenation.mdwn @@ -3,3 +3,27 @@ I recently found [Hyphenator](http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/) which is quite cool ... but it should be possible to implement this functionality within ikiwiki and not rely on javascript and the client. A Perl implementation of the algorithm exists in [[!cpan TeX::Hyphen]]. + +> I'd be inclined to say that Javascript run in the client is a better +> place to do hyphenation: this is the sort of non-essential, +> progressive-enhancement thing that JS is perfect for. If you did it +> at the server side, to cope with browser windows of different sizes +> you'd have to serve HTML sprinkled with soft-hyphen entities at +> every possible hyphenation point, like +> +> pro­gress­ive en­hance­ment +> +> which is nearly twice the byte-count and might stop +> search engines from indexing your site correctly. +> +> A browser that supports Javascript probably also supports +> soft-hyphen marks, but I doubt all non-JS browsers support them +> correctly. +> +> It might be good to have a plugin to insert a reference to the +> hyphenation JS into the ``, or a general way to enable +> this sort of thing without writing a plugin or changing your +> `page.tmpl`, though. Perhaps we should have a `local.js` +> alongside `local.css`? :-) +> +> --[[smcv]]