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[hermionesviolin]

zomg I hate rich text option in LJ. I tried it out 'cause I already had a draft in Semagic and figured I'd save time not hand coding the bolds. Yech. em for italics ("emphasis") and strong for bold. And they do this weird <br /> shit for line breaks. And it's so hard to edit. And I couldn't see any way to move it back to regular edit. *stabs* (I c&p-ed into Semagic, deleted the entry, recoded, then c&p-ed back. So not a timesaver. A mistake I will never repeat.)

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Technically....

[carpdeus.livejournal.com]

The preference is to use <em> and <strong> over <i> and <b>.

In addition, XHTML (the next version of HTML) will require that every element either have a closing element (ie, <p> has a matching </p> or that it show that it is a stand alone element by including a / at the end of the element (<hr /> instead of <hr> or <br /> instead of <br>).

Now, in Semagic you can go into a rich text mode which I do occasionally but then I switch it back to HTML so I can edit it correctly.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

Not stalking! Just that you keep posting about things that I want to comment on. (Although, note my good behaviour in not asking about the United Church of Christ comment in another post. I am being good. Sort of.)

Anyway - I agree: I once made the mistake of switching formats in Semagic, and I'll never repeat that mistake. Unfortunately, today during the day I wrote a sizeable post and emailed it home to post it with a few edits (working on them now), but when I cut and paste from the email to Semagic, all the line breaks translated and I now have to take them all out. Which is a pain.