Sunday 3 March 2013

html delimiters

Posted by speedygeoff on Sunday, March 03, 2013 with
As blog owners know, you have a choice of "compose" mode or "html" mode when writing a new post or editing an old one. I switch between the two modes, knowing I have more control when in html mode. For beginners, in html mode here are examples of simple tags you can use to delimit text for various effects. (I do this now out of interest to see what browsers the xmp tag works in.)

lime is produced by
<span style="color: lime;">lime</span>
strikethrough is produced by
<s>strikethrough</s>
italic is produced by
<i>italic</i>
To display html examples such as these above, I delimit using xmp and /xmp, otherwise we would have pairs of identical lines! What doesn't work is nesting xmp's here to show you how the xmp delimiters work, but you get the idea, maybe. xmp switches off html interpreting.

But what may happen in your browser if it is different from mine is that the xmp delimiters may not even be functional, which means the above probably won't make much sense. They work fine (here) in Chrome. It would be interesting to know which browsers they don't work in. The main browsers other than Chrome would be Firefox (works OK), Safari, Opera, and Explorer, in descending order from best to worst, generally. Let me know?

Training at Stromlo Forest Park: Sarah-Jayne, Yelena, Peter, Andrew S, Joel, Ewen, Barry (new) & I all had a run around a pleasant, cooler Stromlo grass track today, all but me doing a very fast 4 x 1k.

Results Ginninderra Parkrun #45
18 Tim RAWLING 20:57
23 Gary BOWEN 22:22
27 Jacob Edward CLIFTON 23:07 New PB!
63 Cate WINNING 30:30 First Timer!
64 Margaret MCSPADDEN 31:04 New PB!
80 finishers

Tuggeranong Parkrun #2
28 Adam ROBINSON 31:38 First Timer!
43 finishers

I never learned this:


This on the other hand is much closer to my philosophy:


Take risks!