User:MikeVitale/UserPage

'Above is the "This is a User Page" code taken directly from ArielGold's User Page. This is not in any way a knock on ArielGold, as I have seen pretty much the exact same code on just about everyone else's User Page that includes this box.'

'My question concerns why are we obfuscating the text of "Wikipedia" by wrapping it in a couple of &lt;span&gt; tags that don't really do anything, and why we're using the HTML entities for the "Wikipedia" letters. Reference this page if you don't know what I'm referring to by entities.'

It seems like the exact same thing could be accomplished by the following, and people would be able to read it to boot:

(Sorry, I tried putting those inside "pre" tags, but that causes much horizontal scrolling. Horizontal scrolling is bad.)

-- Mike Vitale  09:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

For reference, the first set of code looks like:

And the second set of code looks like:

-- Mike Vitale  21:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)