- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:07:11 +0200
- To: "Braden N. McDaniel" <braden@endoframe.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 20:43:55 -0400 (EDT), "Braden N. McDaniel" <braden@endoframe.com> wrote: >On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Jan Roland Eriksson wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 03:09:26 -0400 (EDT), "Braden N. McDaniel" >> <braden@endoframe.com> wrote: [...] >> >Indeed, but it is *not* the parser's job to fix errant >> >document structure! >> Fair enough. But... >> What about "styling" of non existing content? >> Leave that no-content element dangling in the DOM tree and we need to >> move the decision not to style it to the CSS renderer instead. >> If not, we will not have a way to discourage the use of successive P's >> for vertical spacing, and that is what I think David's question was all >> about. >Hm. That's a good point. I think the bottom line here is that the rule in >the HTML spec is Stupid: if the spec authors wanted to discourage empty P >elements, they should have made them altogether illegal. Exactly. Looking into that :) -- Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> <URL:http://member.newsguy.com/%7Ejrexon/>
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