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I'm really surprised you didn't stress the importance of having useful fragment identifiers for every section, and using references to them liberally -- and not
by blasdel 17y ago
I'm really surprised you didn't stress the importance of having useful fragment identifiers for every section, and using references to them liberally -- and not just the obvious <a href="#foo">foo</a> -- tertiary links inline in prose like Suck.com popularized in the olden times.
Some nitpicks:
and you need to understand why I’m putting the commas and semicolons in this sentence inside the quotes, not outside
I know why you do that, but it doesn't make it any less bullshit. It's not like you're doublestriking on a monospaced typewriter or manually kerning on a press! Don't pollute what are ostensibly quotes with exterior punctuation. At least you're using the oxford comma :)
Mostly, this means using emphasis and strong text frequently. I usually avoid too much strong because it’s looks like I’m just aping Jakob Neilsen, but whatever.
An apter and and more pejorative example for today's whippersnapper would be Jeff Atwood. In my opinion using <em> and <strong> with default styles is worse than useless, just use <i> and <b>, they aren't poisonous. I did appreciate the <em> as yellow-highliter fad that 37signals kicked off years ago.
- weeksie 17y agoActually, the commas inside the quotation marks is an American English thing. Regardless of logic it's completely consistent with usage in the States. In the UK it's not. That said, where to place the commas, full stops, and semi-colons is pretty tricky no matter what side of the Atlantic you're on.
- youngian 17y agoI have particular qualms with this in technical documentation. For example, I'll often be talking about a string or command and put it inside quotes to make clear what is part of the string or command. If that's at the end of the sentence, the rules dictate my period should go inside the quotes as well. I can never bring myself to obey that.
- weeksie 17y agoI can understand where you're coming from but I've never run into that issue because I never quote commands or keywords, instead I change the typeface. Still, I'm a huge fan of altering grammar in small, consistent ways for the sake of clarity (that's where style guides come in).