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                                Styling feeds II
                                        
The previous entry [1] brings me back to the styling feeds topic [2] I
brought up a week or so ago.

Normally, I tend to quote email headers in posts as:

> <p>
> <b>From:</b> John Doe &lt;<span class="cut">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</span>&gt;<br>
> <b>To:</b> Sean Conner &lt;sean@conman.org&gt;<br>
> <b>Subject:</b> You know, your posts are boring<br>
> <b>Date:</b> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400
> </p>
> 
> <p>You know, your posts are getting awfully dull lately ... </p>
> 

Which would be rendered as thus:

> **From:** John Doe <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
>  **To:** Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
>  **Subject:** You know, your posts are boring
>  **Date:** Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400 
> 
> You know, your posts are getting awfully dull lately … 
> 

But there was an entry last month [3] that made me rethink how I wanted to
construct the headers when quoting email—basically, long email headers can
span multiple lines but each subsequent line of a header should be indented
with white space, and with the formatting I have above, that distinction
isn't preserved (as well as the headers inherit the full justification I have
for all my paragraphs, which shouldn't happen either).

So I thought about it, and I decided that really, headers could be construed
as a type of dictionary list—a list of terms (the header name) and their
definitions (the header contents). So the above would be encoded in HTML
(HyperText Markup Language) as:

> <dl>
> <dt>From</dt>
> <dd>John Doe &lt;<span class="cut">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</span>&gt;</dd>
> 
> <dt>To</dt>
> <dd>Sean Conner &lt;sean@conman.org&gt;</dd>
> 
> <dt>Subject</dt>
> <dd>You know, your posts are boring</dd>
> 
> <dt>Date</dt>
> <dd>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400</dd>
> </dl>
> 

Which I would like to render as:

> From: John Doe <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
> Subject: You know, your posts are boring
> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400
> 

Only if you aren't viewing this on my site with a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
capable browser, you won't see the intent I have for formatting, which gets
us back to the post I made last month [4].

Am I the only one that has this concern over how my entries are presented?

Anyway, if the quoted email in the previous entry [5] looks a bit odd, that's
why—you aren't seeing it how I intended it to be seen.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/04/25.2
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/04/14.1
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/03/29.1
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/03/29.1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/04/25.2

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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