Styling feeds II

The previous entry [1] brings me back to the styling feeds topic [2] I brought up a week or so ago.

Normally, I tend to quote email headers in posts as:

>
```
<p>
<b>From:</b> John Doe &lt;<span class="cut">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</span>&gt;<br>
<b>To:</b> Sean Conner &lt;sean@conman.org&gt;<br>
<b>Subject:</b> You know, your posts are boring<br>
<b>Date:</b> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400
</p>
<p>You know, your posts are getting awfully dull lately ... </p>
```

Which would be rendered as thus:

**From:** John Doe <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>…> **To:** Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>…> **Subject:** You know, your posts are boring…> **Date:** Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400
You know, your posts are getting awfully dull lately …

But there was an entry last month [3] that made me rethink how I wanted to construct the headers when quoting email—basically, long email headers can span multiple lines but each subsequent line of a header should be indented with white space, and with the formatting I have above, that distinction isn't preserved (as well as the headers inherit the full justification I have for all my paragraphs, which shouldn't happen either).

So I thought about it, and I decided that really, headers could be construed as a type of dictionary list—a list of terms (the header name) and their definitions (the header contents). So the above would be encoded in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) as:

>
```
<dl>
<dt>From</dt>
<dd>John Doe &lt;<span class="cut">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</span>&gt;</dd>
<dt>To</dt>
<dd>Sean Conner &lt;sean@conman.org&gt;</dd>
<dt>Subject</dt>
<dd>You know, your posts are boring</dd>
<dt>Date</dt>
<dd>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400</dd>
</dl>
```

Which I would like to render as:

From: John Doe <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To: Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
Subject: You know, your posts are boring
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:17:17 -0400

Only if you aren't viewing this on my site with a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)-capable browser, you won't see the intent I have for formatting, which gets us back to the post I made last month [4].

Am I the only one that has this concern over how my entries are presented?

Anyway, if the quoted email in the previous entry [5] looks a bit odd, that's why—you aren't seeing it how I intended it to be seen.

[1] /boston/2006/04/25.2

[2] /boston/2006/04/14.1

[3] /boston/2005/03/29.1

[4] /boston/2006/03/29.1

[5] /boston/2006/04/25.2

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