- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 00:11:09 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 08:44 PM 12/07/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote: >>From Liam Quinn: >> At 06:59 PM 12/07/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote: >> >Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote: >> >> 2. There is definite statement on being collapsing or >> >not. >> > >> >A statement there should definitely be, and it should definitely be >> >'not'. >> >> Why? > >The reason white space must collapse is to allow readable structured >markup. Author/designers commonly use multiple to bypass that >limitation. Since consecutive are there by intent, and the >intent is unambiguous, is there any logical reason why they should >collapse? Not really, except perhaps that multiple spaces (non-breaking or otherwise) are not structural elements and thus should be ignored. HTML 4.0 defines the entity as a method for prohibiting a line break. If we accept as a non-collapsing, non-breaking space, HTML 4.0's definition would have to be augmented to also define as a method for forcing a space. But the fact that multiple spaces have nothing to do with structure and everything to do with presentation suggests that non- collapsible spaces have no place in HTML. While we're on this topic... What about multiple BR elements? Should these be collapsed? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8hVXA/JhtXygIx1AQEkRwL/e4qBMGfyPK1TWVqDt6pcgHjulgHplZBe B8Bm3QC1K+dNDCdcdG8shtXqqpYpg8MwIS7MA6oNpXBi2lPGrBBVoVeEbFa2OV7O mosyoF1swTtnQWzzNz/bXSbx15Vn6QJP =tIAe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
Received on Sunday, 13 July 1997 00:10:29 UTC