Comments on: They Should Exercise Their Minds a Bit, Too

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:19:51 +0000

I really have nothing else to add, but I’m testing this…

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:25:47 +0000

You would be surprised! The archaic tags are easy and CSS is “hard,” so they use them. If you find a good one, let me know. It has been a couple years since I checked, but the last time I did, all kinds of crazy non-compliant tags were used.

Incidentally,

renders perfectly in every browser, even if it is deprecated.

Same for it’s younger sibling,

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:41:46 +0000

Parrotlover:

I know stand-alone programs choke on real HTML, but I’m hoping that a plugin that allows simple formatting can pull it off. How hard can it be? This is 2009, not 1999. Two-thirds of my visitors use Firefox, not some crappy third-rate browser that insisted on using its own tags in the early days and has contaminated the web ever since because moron web developers only bothered to check if their site rendered properly on their own machine.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:35:25 +0000

griffon8:

I was hoping someone out there would get the reference. It’s strange how you can unexpectedly run into people with FBI connections. I once interviewed someone for a job who had previously worked there.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:54:50 +0000

Ron – Very few rich text editors render full W3C HTML compliant code. You’ll see tags like

and so on. I know that’s important to you.

By: griffon8

griffon8 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:57:16 +0000

It’s not wasted on me, Ron. I’ve been playing Nuclear War for thirty years.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:30:24 +0000

Chakolate:

FYI, ‘ONN’ is Onion News Network.

Actually, it’s both a floor wax and a dessert topping!

And FBI is both Federal Bureau of Investigation and Flying Buffalo, Inc. That reference is completely wasted on you people, though. Among this blog’s potential readership, maybe only Mike Stackpole would know that. He was at TAM 5.5 (which I missed), but I’ve never seen him at the integer TAMs. I guess he and I don’t move in the same circles anymore.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:15:47 +0000

Kevin:

(By the way, I have no idea how to quote)

Just use the HTML blockquote tag like this:

Bite me!

renders as:

Bite me!

BTW, if anybody out there is running a WordPress blog, and you’re using some sort of plugin that gives the users simple formatting, and if you’re happy with that plugin, please let me know. I know there are a bunch of them, but I haven’t gotten around to trying a few to see what I like. There are a lot of little improvements I want to do to this blog, but my personal life seems to suffer one disruption after another and I never have time to get to them.

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:09:37 +0000

FYI, ‘ONN’ is Onion News Network.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:20:32 +0000

Oops Kevin beat me to it. lol

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:20:02 +0000

4ndyman – That’s exactly what they mean with moral greatness. Slavery (et al) are all perfectly acceptible biblical morals.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:28:34 +0000

…Racial and socioeconomic inequity and oppression, unfettered and dangerous child labor, legalized gender bias, corruption, slavery, greed, and bigotry.

I think those may be what they mean…

(By the way, I have no idea how to quote)