When posting to my blog, I started with writing my entries formatted in some basic html. I adjusted the CSS stylesheets so that this basic html fits nicely on the blog page. Some items however, especially images, I attributed with some style information.
Then refreshed my CSS knowledge for a project of mine and started defining my own classes to use in the blog. Basically, I could write entries tagged with ul/li and classes and have the formatted very nice. It also made writing blog entries more fun, because I could focus more on the content itself.
It works really well for publishing a recipe like i did for the chocolate cookies (on the german blog). The ingredients get their own formatting and float to the left and I think its neat. Whenever I may want to change the style of the blog, such postings will work nicely. The ones with html style pieces will not.
Now, my problems is that this does not look good in feed readers. Feed readers will have their own CSS applied to my postings and it will just appear as some strange lists. It looks very poor. And that is expressed rather politely.
What do I miss here? How can i make good semantic markup (or even my on xml lingo) for the postings and still have that well readable in any RSS reader? Or is this hole idea sub-intelligent to start with?
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