Timeline for Inline Code Spans should not be used for emphasis, right?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 16:23 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | @JimG. Tables and code markup are different beasts (one is layout and/or data structure, one styling), so the considerations for their proper use are orthogonal. Trying to argue from one to the other is a non-starter. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 13:49 | comment | added | Jim G. | @DavidMulder: Well, if Bootstrap, Blueprint, 960, and other grid frameworks imply that the table-like divs won, then I suppose you are correct. But when I need a quick table on a page, I simply reach for the table tag. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 12:00 | comment | added | David Mulder | @JimG. Everyone ended up agreeing with them? | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 11:20 | comment | added | Jim G. | @SevenSidedDie: Once upon a time, HTML zealots declared that tables were, in many cases, semantically wrong and that developers should prefer divs with table-like CSS. How did that work out? | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Migration of MSO links to MSE links | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 5:23 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | @LanceRoberts It's not just distracting, it's semantically wrong. Code formatting is semantic HTML to indicate to a parser that text is code. If we start lying to our parsers, we break tools built on HTML. Consider screen readers: if a visually impaired user configures their software to spell out code tags, or to have an easy keyboard shortcut with a macro called "jump to next code span/block and highlight" for easy copy-pasting, we are significantly disabling their ability to interact with the page. Further disabling, I should say. | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 0:26 | comment | added | Dave Newton | I think I'd use <kbd> for badges, although I've never actually tried it. | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 17:45 | comment | added | Lance Roberts | @Arjan, yeh, I don't see the need for any highlighting in that excerpt. | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 17:43 | comment | added | Arjan | To me, "too much" equals "greater than zero" here. Even if only "iOS" was put into backticks in the example above, then that would have bothered me. (Especially so for suggested edits.) | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 15:41 | comment | added | Lance Roberts | @JackDouglas, yes, I agree it's a little distracting, but isn't that what emphasis does, distract. I definitely don't like seeing it abused. | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 15:39 | comment | added | Jack Douglas | using for badge names doesn't seem 'wrong' to me but it's worth spelling out that backticks aren't just a form of emphasis—they have the unique feature of making the text monospaced (which of course is what makes them ideal for code). This change of spacing is just distracting (to my eyes at least) when it occurs in the middle of a sentence like the examples given. | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 15:06 | comment | added | user152859 | bold and italics are just enough, no need for third form of emphasis. | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 14:52 | history | edited | Lance Roberts | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 90 characters in body |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 14:22 | history | answered | Lance Roberts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |