Re: Some complaints about HTML 4.0

• From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 20:52:10 -0700
• To: <www-html@w3.org>, "Walter Ian Kaye" <walter@natural-innovations.com>
• Message-Id: <199707130352.UAA19780@italy.it.earthlink.net>

Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> a non-breaking space is not a space -- it just *looks* like one. In
the
> Courier font (or a similar typewriter-mimicking font), the number "1"
> looks exactly like the lowercase "l".

Not exactly. &045 (-) and &173 (­), however...

> But it's a different character code
> and therefore a different character: nbspace is not space.

Absolutely.

David Perrell

Received on Saturday, 12 July 1997 23:52:22 UTC