Hi Dark, Yeah, I see your point, but the standards are there for good reason.
For Instance, when I start a paragraph in html I indent the line two tabs use <p align="left"> and then write my paragraph on the same line. Then, I close it with the </p> tag. That's pretty common and the way I was trained to do it in college. The thought behind this is a uniform style across business websites, and as with programming languages those indentions I made allows a sighted web developer to quickly glance through the html code and find the beginning of paragraphs, tables, lists, etc simply based on indention. Its not strictly necessary to do this, of course, but it makes it more readable. Especially, when you have nested elements like tables that can have several columns and rows. Cheers! On 2/16/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > This all makes sense, but at least in structural terms, I have noticed there > are things which can be done to make code make a bit more sense to both the > writer and the reader, business models and standard aside. > > For example, though it is not programming code, one thing I always do when > writing html is put hard returns in the places that they would have if it > were a standard peace of text, even though they won't actually show up. > > for instance, I'll always start my new paragraphis with less than p > greaterthan on a new line, and when I've finished I'll go down a line again. > > All my line breaks are on separate lines, as is any list item I use. > > there is no really logical reason for this, indeed I've seen some html that > will just write paragraphs and such as one large block of text. I just > personally found it easier to think about if I put in the hard returns so > that when actually looking at the code, it looks the way I'd write it in > text as well, and now that we've got a couple of new db editers, it's stood > in good stead sinse they can look at it and instantly see what the > formatting code does. > > I've seen similar sorts of things done when games have editable conf files, > there will be one or two commented out instructions telling you what does > what and how to set stuff like the variables to what you want, just to make > the lives of people who might want to change their game settings easier. > > So, as I said, while probably there are industry standards for this and > matters of indenting which, --- -unless using python, are more conventions > and standards mostly intended for sighted programmers, if you want other > people to read what you've done and fiddle with it, it still makes sense to > try and make that as easy for them as possible. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
