Re: FAQs: What to do?

>CJRandall wrote:
>> it does _not_ matter a hoot what style each person paints their web.page
>
>I agree.
>
>> 'cos on it u'll only have an <A HREF> link to the FAQ document which
>> should be rendered in black and white plain text just like i was viewing
>> it here .. tho' possibly with minimal markup to produce fixed-width font
>> in all browsers ... such as :-
>> <html><pre>
>
>Bad Idea! WHY put normal text in <PRE>? That tag is for _preformatted
>text_, e.g. ascii art or text which is already formatted as plain-text
>tables. Normal text in html is best presented with <P> for paragraphs,
><Hx> for headers, etc. This makes it easy to distinguish what is a
>header (because it is rendered with a big font / a different font /
>centered / indented / whatever your browser and/or stylesheet uses to
>distinguish headers). It also makes the text in the paragraphs wrap when
>it reaches the right edge of the browser window (which is one of the
>Good Things about well-written html).


I disagree with you on this one Veronica. If you want the mirror site to
look just like the original document, the the auto wrap of not using <pre>
will definitely make the document look quite different. So in this instance,
I can honestly say I would use <pre> so that everytime they came back to the
page (no matter what size their browser is) it would always look EXACTLY the
same (in view form anyway).

But everyone is hosting their own mirror, so they should do what they want.

I use <pre> on all my FAQ's. I didn't used too, until I noticed that it did
look different everytime I came back to it. I do happen to resize my windows
often.

Peace,
Donovan

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