Perhaps for another time and maybe a different group on English
language Barney, I would like to see a topic on the effect that Google
is inadvertently having on the English language, apart from linkfarms
being used to promote selling widgets, repeating keywords in level
heading and paragraphs, a Thesaurus to me seems like the crucifix to
the devil for google page rank.
It seems to me that what some people are really concerned about is that
you cannot stuff keywords into a HR tag?
Can we discuss in this group Google's effect on the English language,
promoting pagerank for compliance with their search algorithms.
Tim
On 07/02/2007, at 12:10 AM, Barney Carroll wrote:
@Designer:
<p> separates text into individual blocks. It is used for the same
reason as we use spaces, commas, full-stops (periods), page breaks... A
paragraph should be self-contained in meaning. If you argue that this
is
presentational, there's not much stopping you from making the leap to
the fact that text itself is purely a collection of signs which only
mean anything once interpreted on some level. I hope we can leave it at
this without getting into perceptive psychology and the ultimate
meaninglessness of life itself.
@Rimantas:
It only takes imagining any occurrence of a <hr> to make clear that
your
example obviously isn't enough. Of course we don't want one of these
between all <div>s or <p>s. No-one has ever used it like this. It is
only because it is used as a distinct element that anyone acknowledges
its value. Horizontal rules do not necessarily divide chapters - and
neither do they divide all paragraphs in any instance I've seen.
You seem to be of the camp which maintains that use of the horizontal
rule as a visual device is never justified. I disagree.
*****
If people were to say there should be such a thing as
p.breakFlow:after{display:block;height:1px;color:#000000;margin:2em 0 0
2em} on the basis that there should not be such an 'object' in the
markup, I might be tempted to get into a discussion about semiotics.
But
saying that a staple of human literary culture over the past 500 years
has been made obsolete by Google doesn't really merit acknowledgment in
my eyes.
Regards,
Barney
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