- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:59:32 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wednesday 2008-11-26 17:50 -0600, Tab Atkins wrote: in the case of <center>, though, I'll still argue that, from a >> >> > design standpoint, having the markers move to the left edge isn't > horrifying. As well, as I said before, the visual changes resulting > from the trivial fix (moving the marker inside) aren't significant > when the text is centered. I completely agree. Going the other way, and not being able to do something like line numbers on the lefy with centered text (for poetry analysis, let's say)would be worse from a design perspective. > In the worse case - an author with absolutely *no* CSS knowledge - > since they obviously don't care about semantics anyway (they're using > <center>, after all) they can just paste a bullet character directly > into the text. (This is relatively common anyway - the "designers" > before me at my company consistently implemented <ul>s with a > two-column table, e.g. > <table><tr><td>•</td><td>...</td></tr>...</table>. I still have > nightmares.) I'm sorry, man. It was the 90s. I didn't know any better back then. ;-) > > > ~TJ >
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