User kevin - SnippetGood

Answer by Kevin for How can I display formatted rss data in a DIV

2009-11-11T13:25:24Z

You might want to try Yahoo! Pipes. Visually construct and manipulate data and then select on of the many options they provide for embedding it on your site.

Answer by Kevin for If statements and ranges

2009-11-11T04:45:33Z

I usually use something like this:

(Javascript)

function clamp(value, min, max)
{
    return Math.max( Math.min( value, max ), min );
}

Answer by Kevin for or ?

2009-11-11T04:39:16Z

The difference is <strong> and <em> convey meaning, whereas <b> and <i> describe how to render text. Although they look the same, they are semantically different.

Answer by Kevin for Using font tags in html and css.

2009-11-11T04:29:03Z

Font tags are frowned upon by many people mainly because it does not describe what your content is -- it describes what it looks like. This limits what style changes can be applied globally.

If you have a website with multiple themes or plan on updating your design in the future, it is much easier to change a few lines in a css file than it is to manually go through all the content on your website and alter the font tags and other markup.

I have seen this dozens of times and have gone through the pains of managing websites that used tons of tables and font tags for styling.

This is much harder to maintain:

<p> <font face="Arial"><big>Article Headline</big></font><br /> <small>Posted by: <font face="Times" color="gray">Author</font></small><br /> <blockquote>Excerpt here.</blockquote> </p>

Compared to:

<div class="news"> <div class="title">Article Headline</div> <div class="detail">Posted by: <span class="author">Author</span></div> <div class="excerpt">Excerpt here.</div> </div>

Another thing I should mention is most WYSIWYG rich text editors have poor support for css compliant output and instead they will use many <p> and <font> tags. This is a gray area... I would use font tags at your own discretion.