* Richard Taytor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-05 00:05]: > Whatever characters one chooses to use (I imagine some > resistance to ~), I think div and span support is essential.
I don’t know about <div>, but <span> is an inline element so you can just type it literally. Markdown doesn’t have to have support for *every* HTML tag – that will just lead to unreadable line noise as you end up with lots of funny squiggles with some kind of meaning that you have no chance at all of guessing. I’d also say that if you need <span> tags so much that writing them literally doesn’t cut it, then you’re writing a lot of semantically meaningless markup; which means *something* is wrong. (I almost never use <span>; usually it’s <b>, sometimes <i>, and I undo the default bold/italic style as necessary in the stylesheet. These tags are just as meaningless as <span>, but at least they do have a default presentation, so if the stylesheet is not in effect, there’s still an indication that I wanted to convey *something*. As a bonus, they’re easier to type and, if relevant, also easier on the filesize.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
