I know typing a few extra
I know typing a few extra characters to make bold text seems tedious... but when I think of it I'm reminded of the Star Trek movie where they went back in time to save the whales and Scotty discovers he has to actually type what he wants instead of merely speaking to the computer and says "How quaint!"
If you don't do it on a regular basis even typing http://www every time you want to go to a site can get to be quite tedious; whereas if you do it all the time, it becomes just something you do. I mentioned before that I remember having to type everything from the command line when I was young. There was no option. Everything required the C prompt. It was the tape drives that made you want to slit your wrists! Waiting five minutes (or twenty five minutes!?!) for your program to load with absolutely NO guarantee it would work, and then have to do it again for the fifth time! Oy!! Makes me want to bash my head into a wall just remembering the good old days. Did I mention I was insanely jealous of Matthew Broderick's character in War Games because he had a floppy disk drive, a phone modem, and a speaker (and program) to allow his computer to speak? I felt like Fred Flintstone! :Sp
The only thing that could possibly get me to take umbrage with keystroked alterations to text would be if you type everything in the way it's supposed to be, but it comes out looking like the mish mash you just typed.. no bold, no italics, just a mess. I see that all the time on other sites.. like when smileys don't work ;-)
So far I've never seen that problem here... I was just showing what would set me off IF it ever happened |(
John T.