Skip to main content

New Blogger June 2008 - Displaying HTML

By
For years, bloggers have complained about the inability / complexity of displaying HTML code in a blog post.

Being told to display "<" as "&lt;" and ">" as "&gt;" confuses many folks - it's not easy typing "&lt;" and "&gt;" - and it's still harder to type "&amp;lt;" and "&amp;gt;", which is how you display "&lt;" and "&gt;", respectively.

Don't ask me to go any deeper.

With the 2008 post editor, we have a new setting, under Post Options.
Interpret typed HTML.


The phrasing there is confusing, to me anyway. What it means, in effect, is that typing "<" will display "<" and ">" will display ">", without any work from us, with "Interpret typed HTML" selected for that post. No more having to type "&lt;" and "&gt;".

In other words, in a single post, you'll be able to copy and paste raw HTML and have it display as raw HTML - if you can make single posts without any HTML, like formatting or links.

This feature may hasten the elimination of the toolbar in "Edit HTML", and make that mode still less usable for composing content. And this should make the New Blogger June/July 2008 Post Editor more attractive, at least slightly so.
Labels:

Comments

FZ said…
Interesting change. Thanks for this link.
15/7/08 01:50
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Add A Custom Redirect, If You Change A Post URL

By
When you rename a blog, the most that you can do, to keep the old URL useful, is to setup a stub post , with a clickable link to the new URL. Yo! The blog is now at xxxxxxx.blogspot.com!! Blogger forbids gateway blogs, and similar blog to blog redirections . When you rename a post, you can setup a custom redirect - and automatically redirect your readers to the post, under its new URL. You should take advantage of this option, if you change a post URL.
Post a Comment
Read more

Jump Break Is Visible Only In An Index Page

By
Some blog owners are unsure what a Jump Break looks like, when applied to their blogs. Occasionally, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , we see the confusion. Where's the Jump Break? or I added a Jump Break to several posts, but it never shows up! When asked for a screen print of what they're seeing, they may provide a image of the post, in the Post Editor Preview window - or possibly, the published post, but in post page view.
Post a Comment
Read more

Leave Comments Here

By
Like any blogger, I appreciate polite comments, when they are relevant to the blog, and posted to the relevant article in the right blog . If you want to ask me a question thats relevant to blogging, but you can't find the right post to start with (I haven't written about everything blogger related, yet, nor the way things are going I don't expect to either), ask your questions here, or leave an entry in my guestbook . As noted above, please note my commenting policy . If you post a comment to this post , I will probably treat it as a "Contact Me" post . If you have an issue that's relevant to any technical issue in the blog, please leave a comment on the specific post , not here. This post is for general comments, and for non posted contact to me. If the form below does not work for you, check your third party cookies setting! For actual technical issues, note that peer support in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , or Nitecruzr Dot Net - Bloggin...
313 comments
Read more