Hello Dinkus' of the world!
Someone, who I shall hereafter refer to as “Former Minion”, requested that I make a larger greyscale stylesheet for Jessica’s site. Now I noticed something when I went to edit the blockquote, no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t apply a style to what I thought was the blockquote. So, after I de-idiotized myself, I viewed the source and to my horror in the place of a <blockquote> tag she’d used <h4> tag instead.
But that isn’t the end of my terrifying day, oh no not by far. I became curious and started to view the source of quite a few sites (most of which I found on DisasterMB). I’d known that quite a few people bloated out their markup out of ignorance (div’s surrounding headings and whatnot), but I’d never realised just how many people followed Jessica’s example and use the wrong tags and style them like the right ones.
Sure you can style a tag to look like another tag, but the end result is usually bloated and awkward so why even bother?
On a similar note I’d like to complain about people who use the Pixelfx method to style their lists. The only people who are stupider than that are the people who style the a:link to look like an unordered list or the people who manually insert images into a list instead of applying a list-image to the whole thing.
In closing: If you can’t write valid markup, or rather if you have no interest whatsoever in writing valid markup, and insist upon making your own layouts then you shouldn’t have a site. Use a theme or stop making my skin itch, mk?
Tags: rant, stupidity, tutorial
h4.. instead of blockquote?? ok, I get why people insist on using textareas instead of code tags (because writing “display:block” for the CSS is such a big issue, apparently)... but h4 tag???
Then again, I decided not to start hammering these things into people’s heads 24/7 since NO ONE learns. You don’t need to have any type of coding nowledge to learn HTML, which shows that every second person can do it. Of course… by that I mean that they can manage to have a moderately decent looking layout by IE standards (hopefully no one will use a different browser on them).
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You can style another tag to get the right tag – sure, it may look fine.
But on websites that don’t read CSS correctly and all that shit.. it’s going to look quite fug. :) To put it in blunter terms.
#1 Jenny Sep 24, 07:33 Permalink