Doug Stewart wrote:
All due respect, Owen, but semantics _do_ matter. The default theme outputs blockquotes styled with quotes. If the WYSIWYG editor is outputting <blockquote>, then newbies will start asking "Why are my indents all showing up with quote marks?" in the fora.
Don't you find this styling of a block quote perfectly acceptable for text that was marked-up as <blockquote>? If anything is wrong, then it's the label on the button, not its function.
Perhaps the correct *question* to ask is, "How do I style the tags that WordPress does create to look like how I want?"
I think that those on the design/implementation side of things MUST be pedantic and think through their actions, lest they incur all manner of unforseen consequences down the line.
Of what I've seen people ask for - usually two separate buttons, one for <blockquote> and one to indent - the only semantically correct tag is <blockquote>. It is my assertion that there is no semantically correct "indent" tag, because the act of indenting is a layout feature.
Anyway, even popular services such as Technorati have all but eschewed semantic markup for microformats (custom rel attributes). WordPress itself uses XFN microformats in its blogroll. I've always considered WordPress an effective instrument in swaying web technology, but I'm not convinced that blogging will benefit from exclusively semantic tagging, nor will it suddenly change its course away from what it's already doing just because WordPress implements it.
Besides that, the markup that the WYSI editor creates is largely out of our control anyway. The TinyMCE editor is a part of WordPress that is included from a separate project on sourceforge, and the button merely triggers a feature of the browser's built-in editing capabilities. If there is a true argument to use semantically correct tagging in the editor, it should probably be addressed on their support channels.
Doesn't Andy have enough to do, after all? ;) Owen _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
