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Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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lugnet.faq
Date: 
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 02:02:09 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, "Robert Munafo" <munafo@gcctech.com> writes:
> In lugnet.faq, Todd Lehman writes:
> > 1.  there is accidental space around the 'foo' in
> > 
> >    <a href="xxx"> foo </a>
> > 
> > which will cause the links to display improperly.  Really it should say
> > 
> >    <a href="xxx">foo</a>
> > 
> > for proper links.
> 
> Accidental to you maybe, but it was no accident to me. I left space on either
> side of anchor text to make it more readable. I did that because right now
> everyone is limited to reading raw FAQ entries.

Aha!  OK, forgive me -- I assumed it was either an accident or some penchant
for doing that sort of thing.  Looking at your web pages (which I love,
BTW!), of course, you don't have anything weird at all like that there, so
that ruled out the penchant thing.  :-)


> [...]
> > > http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=554
> > 
> > Ahh, that's a perfect example, IMHO.  :)  Alternatively, though, couldn't
> > it be written in italics and carry the same mental-weight?
> 
> I wanted it to appear seperate from the discussion, with actual white space on
> all four sides. In other words, I prefer the way I did it only on personal
> aesthetic grounds.

Either way is fine by me; just wanted to point out the italics option in
that case, since the text was so short.  :-)

--Todd



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  Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
 
(...) Accidental to you maybe, but it was no accident to me. I left space on either side of anchor text to make it more readable. I did that because right now everyone is limited to reading raw FAQ entries. (...) Yes. If the formatting and (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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