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I noticed the blog editor uses inline CSS <span> styles to format text (bold/underline, etc.) but this isn't good if you try to keep your blog as free from inline styles as possible (many reasons why!)
Maybe an option to change how formatting styles are applied when writing a blog post could be useful? Standard HTML tags like <strong>, <em>, etc. allow for more customising in your CSS source files rather than having inline content which is difficult to maintain later on. Or maybe the blog editor could just apply standard html tags for formatting anyway?
erwan
Actually the buttons we have say "bold" and "italic", so it would be incorrect to generate a "strong" or "em" tag. Bold is bold :-).
If you want a "strong" and an "em" button, it would actually be pretty easy to do that by creating an extension that overlays the blog editor.
Orin
Urgghh! I don't like span!
I think the case for using <span> is pretty much based on semantics and not usability, and I've always believed that a big part of Flock is using the web how you want. This little pet peeve has bugged me for a long time. I'm happy I found this thread so at least now I know... although I'm not as happy facing the possibility of hand-rolling an extension myself just to tweak this one irksome detail. But, in all things, I will try.
Your Name
I just used blog editor for the first time - and the markup is horrible!
This is just a testFont tags, inline styles, redundant use of span, br instead of p, br with irrelevant style attributes! This needs to be so much better.
foomandoonian
Okay, my bad. Let me try that again:
<font style="font-weight: bold;" size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> This is just a test</span><br style="font-family: Georgia;" /></font>See the post above for my issues with this markup.