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I agree that it makes sense on that page. But only because the rendering of the page is completely under the control of the author, and the page shows only that
by tjansen 2mo ago
I agree that it makes sense on that page. But only because the rendering of the page is completely under the control of the author, and the page shows only that one page. It's different if the text is rendered by an RSS reader in a different context. You don't know the font, color, or text weight it is rendered with in an RSS reader (which also depends on the context, like unread posts being bold). Imagine the same title in a list of post titles. I think it would stick out and make the list much harder to read.
- gchamonlive 2mo agoIf html in titles were an opt-in feature from the beginning none of this discussion would be happening
- chrismorgan 2mo ago> Imagine the same title in a list of post titles. Sounds wonderful. I think you aren’t realising that it’s already easy to abuse this stuff, with uppercase and exotic Unicode letters <https://yaytext.com/ https://yaytext.com/> and such. But people don’t abuse it in feeds. I’m not talking about allowing <font face=Impact style=color:red>, just some relevant semantic HTML elements like <code>, <em> and <kbd>, which are pretty harmless to add, and useful. Perhaps I should have gone with the MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE characters for my plain text title. Alas, HN strips them. Demo in https://temp.chrismorgan.info/2026-08-02-titles.html https://temp.chrismorgan.info/2026-08-02-titles.html. Doesn’t look any good for me with my specific fonts, would look better for some people.