{"id":37686,"date":"2013-06-19T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T03:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=37686"},"modified":"2013-06-20T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T11:45:24","slug":"on-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/19\/on-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"on formatting"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was an early hacker on the Internet, before the days of Cascading Stylesheets, and I never learned much about them. As time went on, I did some web sites [by hand] and used Cascading Stylesheets, but that was from scratch. When blogging software came along, my daughter and a friend set up the WordPress blog, and my hacker days were behind me – so I used it as it came with a theme they picked out. I’ve changed a bit here and there, but the Cascades of Stylesheets was a a bit much, so I made up a few tricks for formatting that looked fine on my browser [Firefox], but I got occasional groans from Microsoft Internet Explorer users. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it, because my 64 bit MSIE browser was always a version or so off. So I kept using superscript tags for quotes. I gather that’s a real pain in the neck to read, so I bit the bullet and played with the CSS code and this post is what I ended up with. The main font size is bigger.<\/div>\n
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And this is what quotes will look like in the future with a larger font. <\/div>\n
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    And this is what a quote inside a quote will look like.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n
    Does this make it easier to read? Speak now while I still remember what I did. It will play havoc with former posts filled for years with superscript tags, but such is the price of progress… <\/div>\n
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    Update: Sorry for the tiny font size in the comments box. I don’t know how it happened and I can’t yet figure out how to fix it. I’ll go back to it after my eyes uncross from looking at code…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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