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Subject: 
Which HTML to use?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:32:18 GMT
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The administrators at LUGNET are making changes here and there and normally
I like that but something about the enlarged "Subject:" line in the web view
of each post has bugged me. Is it really necessary to do this by a font size
of -1, two BIG tags and a B tag? My overall point is, why stick with HTML
3.2? Certainly a top-to-bottom redesign in XHTML 1.x and CSS may be a
daunting prospect, but incremental changes which reinforce old coding
practices are the wrong direction (er, in my opinion).

Constantine



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  Re: Which HTML to use?
 
(...) I'll agree. I will also add that with CSS in use, the server speed will become much faster since the cgi program won't have to generate all the long code in HTML, just a short tag defining the class. Let the CSS do all the rest. Jeremy (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Which HTML to use?
 
(...) No. But adding the two <BIG></BIG> tags was a very simple and straightforward changepoint in some code that spits out <FONT SIZE="-1"><B>...foo..../B></FONT> to display the header information. If you look at other headers in that block, you'll (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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