Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

[John Gruber]

Jacob Rus <jrus at hcs.harvard.edu> wrote on 1/7/07 at 5:57 PM:


> This is a Bad Idea(TM) in my opinion.  Because labels for reference 

> links are case-insensitive, this allows for all sorts of unanticipated 

> inconsistencies, without much tangible benefit.  Sure, the extra pair of 

> `[]`s is a bit ugly, but it's ugliness with the useful side effect of 

> making the link obvious.  With this new system, it is much harder to 

> tell whether [blah] is intended to be a link, or just an editorial 

> insertion.  Masking that difference makes the resulting document less 

> readable, especially if the reference comes much later in the document.


If you don't like it, don't use it, but I've been using this
personally for quite a while, and consider it indispensable. (1)
it's very convenient; (2) I've never once run into an unintended
conflict.

-J.G.