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Posted: Dec 27 2011 01:01 am

No Germans are Nazis anymore. At least, not any that you would encounter normally. They basically all died fighting, the war killed that archetype. Which is why you now have stuff like Sprockets.

I have to assume a Nazi would at least know how to post Youtubes.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

Jack Slater wrote:

No Germans are Nazis anymore. At least, not any that you would encounter normally. They basically all died fighting, the war killed that archetype. Which is why you now have stuff like Sprockets.

I have to assume a Nazi would at least know how to post Youtubes.

Not to be a serious party pooper or anything, but the fervor over being a Nazi died out with the war. It's become a serious social taboo to humanize anything associated with them over in Germany anymore.

Posted: Dec 27 2011 01:22 am

It's more than a social taboo. It's a crime punishable by prison time.

Posted: Dec 27 2011 01:49 am

i learned HTML back when i had WebTV. but that was just to make my email look nice. and some geocities page i made way back when. sadly, i forgot most, if not all, of it

Posted: Dec 27 2011 06:01 am

I know jack shit about computers, and there are tons of websites that give you copy pasta examples of how to HTML almost anything you want to, it's not hard, figure it out!

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

The best part about Syd's stance on HTML is that it is true up until the point where you want the entire site to change and then you are stuck with some post content ruining a style design.

BBCode currently uses Style Sheets to issue style changes in modern forums.

Let me better explain.

Lets say you are a site owner who thinks right now that anything that should be bolded needs to actually be thicker text. So you have two easy options with code:

Code:

<b> bolded text </b>

Code:

<span class="bold_text"> bolded text </span> <style>span.bold_text {font-weight:bold;}</style.

Some day if you decide that you want bold content to be a different font instead of a different weight, you just change a stylesheet.

Code:

<span class="bold_text"> bolded text </span> <style>span.bold_text {font-family:Impact;}</style.

If you have a bunch of people typing HTML bold tags, you will not be able to make that change in the future. BBCode would allow it however, if you were running modern code.

That is why BBCode makes sense in a forum in 2011/2012.

I am not arguing that we need it, I am arguing why it should continue to exist and why everyone who thinks they know HTML probably just knows HTML 3.x, not 4.x or 5.

I should point out that the bold example is probably a bad one because of SEO issues. However it is the tag most common to people just starting HTML, so it most likely makes the most sense. For those who are interested, the B tag should be used for structured bold content, while the EM tag should be used for written content bold effect. BBCode would actually fix that as well.