How about adding formatting for bulleted lists September 18, 2001 6:45 PM   Subscribe

How about adding formatting for bulleted lists to the style sheet? Advantages:

  • Lists wouldn’t look like this
  • Jakob sez “Web pages have to employ scannable text, using…bulleted lists”
  • How can making MetaFilter that much more like PowerPoint be bad?
posted by kirkaracha (staff) to Feature Requests at 6:45 PM (9 comments total)

Hmm...that looks OK, but it looked bad in the preview. Maybe I should change my request to adding formatting to the preview.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:46 PM on September 18, 2001


I would at least appreciate it if somebody would post a list of tags that look messed up in the preview but okay in final post. I tried to use <BLOCKQUOTE> once, and it looked screwed up in preview so I removed it.

Actually, let me test it right here:
This is a test of the blockquote system. This is only a test. If this were not a test, you would be given formatting instructions
and lists:
  1. item1
  2. item2
  • item1
  • item2
These all look pretty crazy in preview
posted by boaz at 7:36 PM on September 18, 2001


but look fine once posted.
posted by boaz at 7:37 PM on September 18, 2001


This is true.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:02 PM on September 18, 2001


Just because someone has to say it:
Feh on Jakob.


posted by Su at 11:19 PM on September 18, 2001


Yeah I hate Jakob. On the other hand I'm in a class where we have to take it online. The whole curriculum is in flash.. makes it impossible to search for words and what not, not to mind just annoying.
posted by geoff. at 4:34 AM on September 19, 2001


I thought this was a great idea, until I read the reasons given:

Lists wouldn’t look like this
List looks fine.

Jakob sez “Web pages have to employ scannable text, using…bulleted lists”
Jakob is a tool.

How can making MetaFilter that much more like PowerPoint be bad?
You're kidding, right?
posted by jpoulos at 12:04 PM on September 19, 2001


I have posted explicitly on the BLOCKQUOTE issue, and the block tag issue in general, about four times in Metatalk now. The last time was about three days ago. I am the BLOCKQUOTE king of MeTa! If there was a FAQ, this should be in it, but in the meantime, try searching for the older threads.
posted by rodii at 8:08 AM on September 20, 2001


List looks fine.
It looks crappy in the preview, which is why I posted. It'd be nice if the preview actually gave you a, well, preview of what your post was going to look like.

Jakob is a tool.
Maybe so, but I don't think that invalidates everything he has to say, and he has a lot of good guidelines for writing for the web.

You're kidding, right?
Yep.
posted by kirkaracha at 11:34 PM on September 24, 2001


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