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Deconstructing Blogger Beta's HTML
Scott Wilkinson writes, "Google's Blogger is going through a major revamp, called Blogger Beta, with lots of nifty new graphical layout features and pesky bugs to annoy the users. Yesterday they finally opened up the HTML code behind the Beta, and it's a significant departure from the traditional Blogger. This post at Banana Stew deconstructs the Blogger Beta code and points out some nice new features like if-then, loops, and object-oriented structures."
Opened up the HTML code behind it? Just how hard is it to View Source?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Thats incorrect, the visual rendering of a definition lists depends on the UA. While generally the definition is indented and the term is bold this is not a requirement as per the specification. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html
Yes, definition lists don't have bullets, but there's a greater difference you're missing. A UL has no order, it doesn't matter what order the items are read in, they mean the same thing. An OL is the oposite, the order matters. A DL is very different from both of them, it is a list of terms and their corresponding definitons.
Reading the Slashdot summary it sounds like Blogger has introduced a new sort of HTML. One with if-then, loops, and object-oriented structures. Ferchrissake, when people tell me they can "program in HTML" I ask them to write a for-loop for me... it's Blogger's new template language TFA's talking about here.
CSS is all good and well, and I do my best to make my designs fully CSS, but at times, it's just far, far easier to use a table than to spend hours putting in hackneyed CSS code that won't be 'valid' in the end just to get a simple thing done.