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Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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lugnet.faq
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Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:35:04 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Todd Lehman writes:
> I think it doesn't hurt to allow <BLOCKQUOTE> -- but I'm having trouble
> imagning places where it would be useful. Heh heh, maybe in acutal block
> quotes? :-)
Well, if you look at my FAQ submissions (and you'll have to save them as files
and open in a web browser to see the formatting) you'll see that I put
BLOCKQUOTE and P around all my URLs to make them stand out. Here are a couple
examples of that:
http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=594
http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=592
I also use it in a couple places to make an important piece of advice stand
out. Here is an example of that:
http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=554
I think BLOCKQUOTE is useful in limited situations. It's sort of a stylistic
(artistic or judgmental) thing. I happen to think URLs should be set apart from
the text of a paragraph rather than embedded in the text the way most Web
authors nowadays do them. I'm not opposed to doing it that way, but it does
make the grammar a little more clumsy, particularly considering the requirement
that the URL has to appear as plain text to benefit users who for whatever
reason can't just click on the link and jump to the referent page.
- Robert Munafo
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