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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 (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: Which HTML to use? —Jeremy Scott
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| | | | | (...) 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 (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Which HTML to use? — Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) If by "much faster" you mean a ten-millionth of a second quicker per page display, then you're correct. :-) (...) Actually, the server doesn't have to generate the HTML on a tag-by-tag basis...it's more efficient than that. The difference in (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Which HTML to use? —Constantine Hannaher
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks for the quick reply. If a less legacy-burdened coding for LUGNET is a goal, then that's ok by me. But. Old browsers is not the hang-up, as far as I can tell. (Especially since some really old browsers, like IE2 just to take a random (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Which HTML to use? —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | (...) OK I moved this part of the thread there... Why not just use <h1 class="postheaders">foo</h1> instead? I'm not a CSS expert but that's how I would have done it... --Bill. (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Which HTML to use? —Constantine Hannaher
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| | | | | | (...) Because that way every instance of a first-level heading that needed the desired effect would have to include the class attribute. When hand-coding, especially, it's a waste, and the coder has to remember how to achieve the effect. By (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | Re: Which HTML to use? — Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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