Comments on: Dave Shea’s Markup Guide

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:12:25 +0000

No, you need to use the i element.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:02:59 +0000

I need some “underline” tags for when I’m talking about books.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:26:15 +0000

Yeah, I agree with you on the novice/expert bits, Dougal. I mean, I was thinking about implementations today, and I was thinking about re-naming the button [i/em/cite] and having a JS-driven popup ask the intended use of the markup [proper title, emphasis, citation], and based on the answer, inserting appropriate markup. I mean, I could use a crutch like that, and if I’m going to use Quicktags, how about making the tool help me with even more of the heavy lifting?

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:17:32 +0000

I don’t use the quicktags for most stuff. But I do use the link quicktag a lot, and I ocassionally use the ul/li ones.

Anyhow, the decision to label the buttons ‘b’ and ‘i’ while using the tags ’strong’ and ‘em’ bugs me, too. I understand that this is catering to non-technical users, and I appreciate the idea behind it. But it’s still misleading. Maybe there should be ‘novice’ and ‘expert’ versions of the quicktags…

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:59:30 +0000

Alex: I’ll have to look at that. I spent a little time looking for where to make changes, and I never got anywhere. [Of course, I was doing Boolean searches at random, so I get what I deserve for that.]

Lara: Quicktags are right above your posting area in WordPress—they help you do formatting. You can highlight a word or phrase and hit a quicktag and then the selected formatting or action will be applied to it. I make 95% of my links with the “Link” quicktag.

Now, suggestions for better quicktag behavior are rolling around in my head.

By: Lara

Lara — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:32:10 +0000

What are quicktags?

By: Alex King

Alex King — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:22:13 +0000

Grab the quicktags from my Plugged In release – they have a few extras.