Re: Collapsing breaks & non-beaking spaces. from Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor on 1997-07-14 (www-html@w3.org from July 1997)

From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:49:10 -0400 (EDT)
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970714114525.9852C-100000@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>

No one has mentioned the purpose of collapsing whitespace to begin with.
Why do we collapse whitespace?  I don't have an offical answer, but I'd
guess it is done so that Authors can format the HTML SOURCE in such a way
so that it is readable.  

If this is the case, then collapsing &nbsp would make no sense.  When was
the last time you saw people using &nbsp's to make their SOURCE more
readable? ;-)

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Russell O'Connor            |              roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
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"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
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