Overheard


between two computer science graduate students, in line at Chipotle
A: Keynote's fine, but I still wish I could alter the semantics of the Bold command.
B: What bold command?
A: You know, Command-B. Bolding some text.
B: That's not a command, that's
A: It is too a command.
B: No, dude, it's
A: What is it then? What is it?
B: I don't know dude, but you sound like a tool. "Bold command."
A: Well, regardless, I want to change the semantics of it. The semantics should be "strong", and the implementation of "strong" should be theme specific.
B: Why?
A: Well, in my custom theme, I want the Bold command to render the text in black, but not thicker.
B: Oh yeah? You want to change how the Bold command renders text?
A: I do! I also want the Italicize command to render the text in a monospaced font.
B: Dude, just stop.
A: It works in HTML! We've finally gotten rid, well assuming you're writing valid XHTML, and let's be serious, if you're not you shouldn't be allowed on the internet, but we've finally gotten rid of the "b" and "i" tags, which, let's face it, were leftovers from like, typesetting limitations of the Gutenberg machine or whatever, and replaced them with the genuinely semantic "strong" and "emphasis" tags.
B: You're killing me
A: I don't think it's too much to ask for Apple to adopt some of the HTML conventions of, Oh, I Don't Know, FOUR YEARS AGO, and allow theme-specific implementations of what we used to refer to as the Bold and Italicize commands.
B: Shut up! Nobody cares!