Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Blogspot autoformatting

I have not blogged on blogspot for some time.

And now there is a nasty surprise on it. There is no option to disable auto-formatting when creating HTML (at least in the Russian skin for blogger). Blogspot insisting on inserting the pesky "<br>" in source where there is a newline in the html source.

I think that this is a bug.

When the user chooses to edit html instead of rich text is expected that the user knows html and that the user wants to create something better than the not-so-nice html generated by "create" option. So there must be an option to disable the questionable "helper".

The generated html is so problematic that it displays differently on the comments page. For example unordered lists are broken.

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