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I would hate to see the day HN allowed any way to bold sections of text. It's way more restful purveying a page of uniformly restrained text.
by abraae 8y ago
I would hate to see the day HN allowed any way to bold sections of text.
It's way more restful purveying a page of uniformly restrained text.
- dahfizz 8y agoHow is that meaningfully different to italics in that regard?
- K2L8M11N2 8y agoBold text stands out when visually scanning the page, italics don't.
- masklinn 8y ago> I would hate to see the day HN allowed any way to bold sections of text. HN already has shitty italics (shitty in that it commonly matches and eats things you don't want to be italicised e.g. multiplications, pointers, … in part though not only because HN doesn't have inline code). "bold" can just be styled as italics, or it can be styled as a medium or semibold. It's not an issue, and even less worth it given how absolute garbage the current markup situation is.
- yen223 8y agoFor a site that's meant to target programmers, HN's handling of code blocks is pretty poor. Just give me the triple-tilde code block syntax please!
- masklinn 8y ago> For a site that's meant to target programmers, HN's handling of code blocks is pretty poor. Meh. It does literal code blocks, they work fine. That's pretty much the only markup feature which does, which is impressively bad given HN only has two markup feature: literal code blocks and emphasis. It's not like they're going to add code coloration or anything. And while fenced code blocks are slightly more convenient (no need to indent), pasting a snippet in a text editor and indenting it is hardly a difficult task.