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silveradeptLeave it to the RP communities to notice, because they're usually the people who stretch the platform as far as it will go to achieve the desired ends, but a little while ago, someone noticed that their comments weren't showing inline style any more. For most standard commentaries, that's not a total loss, as we tend to be agnostic about most aspects of our text, but if one were, say,
A comment thread in the news post is active, asking about this development, as is a Support request. There's a probability that someone was poking around in the code and this is an unanticipated consequence of it, and they'll track down the bug and squish it. It could be that they want to move their pages up to a more strict standard and removing inline style is part of that move.
It would be worthwhile to ask if, in the case of customized styles available for paid accounts, whether the stylesheet that users can access for a journal extends into any comments they will receive on that post, making it possible, although tedious, to replicate style-in-comments using custom tags and/or class containers that would have to be distributed to participants.
It might also be worthwhile to test out in Dreamwidth to see if they have retained those elements in comments, to see if their customized stylesheets will allow for the tedious replication, and to ask whether they have any intent to remove such options from comments any time in the future.
No need for panic or anger yet, as there's no indications as of this posting that this is a deliberate move on anyone's part or a hostile one. And it might inspire me to go poking around and see just what kind of customization is truly possible - Tabula Rasa, if it is exactly so, might end up become a style of choice for those people who need to have style control over all their elements and comments.
- trying to represent more than one person in a comment,
- were the kind of journal where there were multiple possible aspects talking in the same comment,
- were representing inner thoughts and outer speech,
- or were otherwise trying to make something of literary quality or that required customized sizes and fonts to get the point across,
A comment thread in the news post is active, asking about this development, as is a Support request. There's a probability that someone was poking around in the code and this is an unanticipated consequence of it, and they'll track down the bug and squish it. It could be that they want to move their pages up to a more strict standard and removing inline style is part of that move.
It would be worthwhile to ask if, in the case of customized styles available for paid accounts, whether the stylesheet that users can access for a journal extends into any comments they will receive on that post, making it possible, although tedious, to replicate style-in-comments using custom tags and/or class containers that would have to be distributed to participants.
It might also be worthwhile to test out in Dreamwidth to see if they have retained those elements in comments, to see if their customized stylesheets will allow for the tedious replication, and to ask whether they have any intent to remove such options from comments any time in the future.
No need for panic or anger yet, as there's no indications as of this posting that this is a deliberate move on anyone's part or a hostile one. And it might inspire me to go poking around and see just what kind of customization is truly possible - Tabula Rasa, if it is exactly so, might end up become a style of choice for those people who need to have style control over all their elements and comments.
