Re: link handling in js-reader

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 08:25:59PM -0600, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Per Bothner wrote:
> > [...]
> > Ideally, one could determine which links are internal by checking for an
> > entry in the table-of-contents.  However, that is bit complicated,
> > mainly because sub-pages don't have access to the ToC, so it would
> > have to involve message sending between JavaScript contexts (no big
> > deal).
> > [...]
> > Comments?
> 
> The texinfo tool that generates HTML has the ToC, so really the correct
> solution here would be for the HTML output to include the 'target'
> attributes directly.  JS can then determine internal links by the absence of
> that attribute and the features at least somewhat gracefully degrade if JS
> is disabled.

I don't know why you say that the manual does not degrade gracefully if
JS is disabled.

> This leads to another question:  are the Info manuals to be taken as a
> collective whole?  Phrased differently, should a link to a node in a
> different Info manual be considered "external"?

Yes as this JavaScript system only handles one manual.  It doesn't handle
links to other Texinfo manuals differently to any other external link.