>> Jan 29, 2004
當詩碰上了 xhtml
這篇名為 XHTML, CSS, and poetry 的文章裡說，
HTML was originally devised as a way for scientists to exchange documents. It is not suited to displaying poetry. And it's safe to say that physicists have had more say than poets when it came to the drafting of the HTML specifications. While there are tags suitable for writing prose in, there are, as far as I know, none intended for poetry.
文章裡當然也提到了讓我們非常期待的 XHTML 2.0（有表現「單行」概念的 tag！）（當然，W3C 在 Working Draft 裡，關於 line element 所舉的例子，還是 program、input、output、"Hello World"），只是期待歸期待，目前還是得看個人手法，套套 CSS 吧。看看這篇文章作者順手推荐的 Representative Poetry Online，也是用上一堆 div、span，以及多到嚇人的 " "，多麼手工排版時代的感覺呀。