15:50
<Michael Ficarra>
is there a good reason why we don't have ? and ! appearances link to their definition?
15:50
<Michael Ficarra>
it's really not easy to Ctrl+F for
15:58
<bakkot>
could probably be done
15:59
<bakkot>
not sure if the existing autolinking would handle it, particularly avoiding false positives
16:42
<Michael Ficarra>
we could use an alternative markup in the spec document
16:42
<Michael Ficarra>
it doesn't have to look like ? and ! in the source
16:44
<bakkot>
No, absolutely not
16:44
<bakkot>
That is an unreasonable burden on authors
16:53
<Michael Ficarra>
do you think it would add much weight to the rendered document?
16:53
<Michael Ficarra>
that's a lot of links
16:56
<bakkot>
I assume it compresses though it does still affect parse and layout
16:57
<bakkot>
Striiiictly speaking we could do it client side
16:57
<bakkot>
Ecmarkup could be made to be client side entirely
17:22
<Michael Ficarra>
lol I (selfishly) care more about weight for initial rendering time, not download time, so that would work against my goals