On Mit, 2003-01-29 at 06:28, Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Bonjour!
The bars drown with ---- are good to separate completely different part of a text, but we may enjoy to use also small bars (for exemple 100 pixel width) to separate paragraph.
Sorry, but that's a bad idea. One rule of good design is only to use design elements - like fonts, italics etc. - when necessary. Adding more formatting "fluff" will make some people use it excessively, just like the smiley-pictures on messageboards or colors in email clients. This will make Wikipedia more confusing and chaotic. It's bad enough with the normal <hr>, its use should be limited as much as possible.
Regards,
Erik