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[Tim Penhey <tim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:14:37 Curtis Hovey wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:02 +1300, Tim Penhey wrote:
> > Hi People,
> > 
> > I was just wanting to add a help link to the widget hint (which defaults
> > to the description for the interface field it is for).  But the default
> > form rendering just uses tal:content="widget/hint".
> > 
> > I was wondering if it would be considered horribly bad form to make that:
> > 	tal:content="structure widget/hint"
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/72730
> 
> I would not want to be the person to audit all the interfaces. I am
> pretty sure markup in an exported description will break the WADL.
> 
> I would prefer that the widget and or field have have separate attrs for
> markup hints and the widget will render it when preferred or available.

I would expect that if we were to add any markup, it would be in an interface 
that is used solely to create widgets, like many of the interfaces in the 
browser modules.

Tim