Moderator post: Please avoid excessive text formatting

[ron_newman]

I've seen a few complaints about this lately, so I'd like to propose a new rule:

Please keep text formatting to an essential minimum when posting to davis_square. In particular, please try not to do not:

- specify an explicit <font> face, size, or color, especially at the outermost (top) level of your post
- paste formatted text into the Rich Text editor from Microsoft Word or another word processor

Doing these things often makes your post less readable on other people's friends pages, or results in text that looks too big or too small on some screens. In at least one case, I recall it generating huge numbers of blank lines at the end of a post, because of a <span> or <div> tag that got pasted in from Microsoft Word.

Thanks for your cooperation. After some discussion here, I'll probably add this to the rules on the community's profile page.

Comments

Re: There is no try

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

I'd use something like <span style="font-size:0.8em"> but people have different styles :)

perhaps something like <span style="font-size:smaller"> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-size-props) might be more portable?

-steve

Re: There is no try

[cos]

em units are relative to the em size of the container, so that's also portable. Boy are we on a tangent!