I hope somebody gets fired for this…
November 30, 2006 | 3:16 pmNo offence buddy, but seriously, this craps up the whole thing for Windows Live Writer:
I thought the font tag died a horrible death some time ago, but it still lives through my outdated textbooks(which have almost no mention of CSS) and now, Windows Live Writer…
Also, the Color Picker needs working:
When was the last time you saw that?
Seriously, Windows Live Writer is just plain awesome, but small non-webby stuff like these need to be ironed out before it’s perfect…
Ok - I'll bite. I see a lot of these
Sriram | December 23, 2006 | 5:37 amOk - I’ll bite. I see a lot of these ’someone should be fired’ posts and they get on my nerves.
Let’s see that you were designing Live Writer - how would you do it?
You’re writing a blog tool, not a website creation tool. So you cant do the best possible thing, which is to define styles in a separate file and reference them here. You can do this if you are Frontpage or Dreamweaver - but not when you’re posting to Blogger.
Ok, that’s out of the question then. Where else would you put CSS then?
Maybe in the head section? Umm..but your blog wont let you get to the head section. Blogger does templates, CommunityServer does something else and so on - there’s no way a blogging tool can get to the <head> section through the MetaWeblog or any other API.
So now you have two options - you can define a style tag inside the post itself. But what if he used the color red in two different posts? Would you want the style tag with a solitary class or id inside every post?
So that means you do 2 things - one, you enclose the text with an element like ’span’ and set the ’style’ there. Let’s take a look at how that would have looked like (hope the html shows up)
text
Look at that line long and hard. How is it so different from the font tag that you just abused above? What does it offer in terms of ‘CSS’ ness? I would say - nothing.
My point is - there’s a time and place to advocate a presentation/content split. But at places where you’re unable to do so, you might as well rely on the stuff defined in HTML 4.01.
Should Live Writer have a feature for people who are defining their own styles in the template or somewhere else? Maybe.
That line 'text' should have read <span style="blah">text</span> Wordpress doesnt seem to
Sriram | December 23, 2006 | 5:38 amThat line ‘text’ should have read
<span style=”blah”>text</span>
Wordpress doesnt seem to auto-html-entity-ize my html