I really do think that the authors of HTML had a good idea when they invented the H1, H2, … H6 tags.
No boring explanation here from me about semantic markup, but a mini rant.
What a shame that Adobe’s new killer(?) online word processor called Buzzword fails, apparently, to support semantic headings. Instead allowing the author to choose a font size, from, by default, 8 to 72.
This _is_ a beta service right now, so I should in theory couch my comments since the product may change when it goes live, but call me a cynic, I think what you see now, in terms of fundamental editing tools, is what you will get in the final form.
Of course, Microsoft Office and Google Docs (two very separate, different alternatives) also, I think, fail to support the ideal level of clarity for heading design as well. The best support I have seen is in a video of the beta Expression Engine v2.0.
I am not foaming-at-the-mouth obsessed with this, and I know the idea of the Adobe product is to allow very rich document creation (more like Microsoft Office or Apple Pages than Google docs), but surely it would be sensible for lots of reasons, to promote a set of six standard, increasing title sizes? They could be overridden if the author wanted to drop to smaller or rise to larger than the standard titles.
One gets the _slight_ impression that perhaps Adobe does not want content created with Buzzword ‘dumb’d-down’ to the level of HTML perhaps? Hm. I am sure I am wrong there.
Please, if I have misrepresented the Buzzword product and it does indeed support standard heading types, then drop me a comment here and I’ll cheerfully edit this post to reflect the new, good news.
Here’s hoping.