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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Friday June 04 2021, @12:35PM (2 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 04 2021, @12:35PM (#1141748) Journal

    You raise a great point, thank you!

    The code base for soylentnews.com (which is now called "rehash") is based on a version of the code base for slashdot. Slashdot started in late 1996(!). Sure there were updates over the years but it was designed and implemented by internet nerds for internet nerds. IOW, everyone was expected to know HTML.

    Also keep in mind that HTML was much more limited then! HTML 2 was published on November 24, 1995 [wikipedia.org] and HTML 3 was published on January 14, 1997 [wikipedia.org]. There was a short learning curve and it was the obvious choice at the time — why reinvent the wheel?

    It's now 2021 and HTML is less well known. I'd dare say most people are more familiar with using web pages than in writing them.

    Several years ago, I started to write a "primer" on basic HTML for soylentnews but that fell by the wayside. It seems there is still a need for it — thanks for the reminder!

    Thinking about it now, offhand, I am thinking these are the basic, supported tags (actually HTML elements) that would get a new user started:

    • <p>...</p>
    • <b>...</b>
    • <i>...</i>
    • <tt>...</tt>
    • <a href="https://example.com">...</a>

    Next might be:

    • <blockquote>...</blockquote>
    • <ecode>...</ecode>

    Not sure where OL, UL, and DL as well as LI would fit in.

    My plate is pretty full right now, so no telling how soon I (or someone else) could get to it, but this discussion has certainly given it a higher priority. Thank You!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DECbot on Friday June 04 2021, @02:27PM (1 child)

    by DECbot (832) on Friday June 04 2021, @02:27PM (#1141771) Journal

    I can say that OL, UL, LI are supported, but I think you can only nest 2 or 3 levels deep before it breaks as there are some "optimization" in the slashcode/rehash that covers for the lazy editor that forgets to close a tag. I use the UL, LI tags all the time for the poll submissions and OL for the 1., 2., 3. ???, 4. Profit memes. Never used the DL personally, so I can't say.
     
    Also <quote> tag works if you're too lazy to type out <blockquote> like me. We also support <user> if your trying to link a user in your post like this martyb.

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    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday June 05 2021, @11:44AM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 05 2021, @11:44AM (#1142019) Journal

      Thanks for the feedback!

      My focus on the GP post was to aim for a minimal subset that could help a person -- who was new to HTML -- to get started. IOW, if I were new to the site and am looking at a blank text-entry field... what do I do?

      Agreed, the other tags ARE useful. Looks like this is turning into a mult-page "primer". =)

      I use <blockquote>...</blockquote> very frequently, so it was helpful to *me* see <quote> mentioned as it looks like it will save me time and typing. Thanks!

      I have directly used DECbot before, but had forgotten about <user>DECbot</user> so thanks for that, too!

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