Comments on: I hope somebody gets fired for this… http://blog.yuvisense.net/2006/11/30/i-hope-somebody-gets-fired-for-this/ Yuvi, a 17 year old wannabe geek from India. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:20:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Sriram http://blog.yuvisense.net/2006/11/30/i-hope-somebody-gets-fired-for-this/#comment-4109 Sriram Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:38:43 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2006/11/30/i-hope-somebody-gets-fired-for-this/#comment-4109 That line 'text' should have read <span style="blah">text</span> Wordpress doesnt seem to auto-html-entity-ize my html :) That line ‘text’ should have read
<span style=”blah”>text</span>

Wordpress doesnt seem to auto-html-entity-ize my html :)

]]> By: Sriram http://blog.yuvisense.net/2006/11/30/i-hope-somebody-gets-fired-for-this/#comment-4108 Sriram Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:37:15 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2006/11/30/i-hope-somebody-gets-fired-for-this/#comment-4108 Ok - 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. Ok - 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.

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