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"Turns out it's damn hard to get everyone to use markup correctly, or even agree to common formats" - perhaps because it's damn hard (read: often impossible) to
by yetanotherjosh 13y ago
"Turns out it's damn hard to get everyone to use markup correctly, or even agree to common formats" - perhaps because it's damn hard (read: often impossible) to get the intended visual presentation for the majority audience of sighted users to look right without resorting to non-semantic markup.
- dredmorbius 13y agoI've pretty much abandoned many sites' designated markup for either 1) Readability's version or 2) my own CSS using Stylebot. It's relatively easy to make significant corrections quickly, and for sites I spend significant time on (say, G+, HN) it's downright useful. Some examples from an earlier post: Hacker News itself: http://stylebot.me/styles/2945 http://stylebot.me/styles/2945 Buzzfeed was particularly fun: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/G6pzJBLK.. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/G6pzJBLK.... NY Times and Edge Perspectives: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/NUMQuQUh.. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/NUMQuQUh.... Basically: if it moves, is fixed, is an interstitial, or is just plain annoying, I kill the hell out of it. And with Stylebot, the easy stuff is just point, click, and "Hide". Then it's gone. Bring it on.