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Hypertext
How are we going to pull off hypertext? The ability to use multiple colours, fonts, throw in some emoji, etc in a single line or paragraph of text is probably going to be important, especially for online games with chat boxes.
I think the most obvious route would be to create an inline container for a bunch of data. Would that be ideal, though?
{ "inline",
{ "text", "This is a chat message and it contains an ", class="white" },
{ "text", "Item Link", class={ "common_item", "item_link" } },
{ "text", ".", class="white" }
}
End user hypertext is also important, as brought up in IRC.
> Hello, my name is {red}Karai{red} and I am totally {b}{i}AWESOME{i}{b}! [ Send ]
Some end user codes could be as follows:
{red}, {green}, {blue}, {cyan}, {pink}, {yellow}, {purple}, etc -- named color codes
{#12345678}, { 255, 255, 255, 255 } -- hex/dec color codes
{b}, {i}, {s} -- formatting codes such as bold, italics, strike through.
{url} -- external websites
Aren't there libraries for that? Also why can't you support it by default for all text?
I do want to support all text, that is why I opened this issue... If you have an idea that will help, feel free to comment.
Emojis should be added lol. If emojis are added I think it should be done the same way android and iphone does them. For example on PC a train emoji is just typing out the :train: short code.
Emoji are a unicode standard so if DOMy ever does support them, it would use the standard unicode glyphs.
Google's emoji specifically use the unicode standards, yes.
Landon Manning [email protected]
On 2 May 2015 at 10:55, Bobbyjoness [email protected] wrote:
Does Unicode standards have all the ones from my android keyboard?
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/excessive/DOMy/issues/14#issuecomment-98361178.
Emoji totally depends on Love getting font fallbacks or you using a font that has the glyphs, it'll just work if you have a font that can do it.
While native emoji will work, rendering cute graphics instead of glyphs would be much more difficult.
Landon Manning [email protected]
On 2 May 2015 at 11:30, Colby Klein [email protected] wrote:
Emoji totally depends on Love getting font fallbacks or you using a font that has the glyphs, it'll just work if you have a font that can do it.
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/excessive/DOMy/issues/14#issuecomment-98365280.
I wouldn't define a hypertext markup language, your Lua syntax is one already. An inline block is fine, end-user end points are wrong IMO, their use is very very application specific and might cause security risks and inconvenience in some applicstions. Also there is no reason to introduce a new layer.
Your new syntax is essentially a markup language that could be compiled into regular DOMy. That could be a seperate, optional and very configurable library or module.
