- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 02:29:07 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:21:22 +0200, Vincent Lefevre <vincent+www@vinc17.org> wrote: >In article <p7sbns0ap8uvhgl93g6m2qlmr8ff16p5in@4ax.com>, > Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> wrote: > >> Section 9.1 in the HTML4.01 spec has this... > >> "In order to avoid problems with SGML line break rules and >> inconsistencies among extant implementations, authors should >> not rely on user agents to render white space immediately >> after a start tag or immediately before an end tag..." > >> Now, is a non-break-space regarded as white space? > >Have you read Section 9.1? :) Oh yes :) ...that one, and most experimental ancient HTML, RFC1866, HTML3.2 and HTML4.x several times (plus quite a bit of serious SGML studies too) And I have been on-line long enough to have seen the issue of beaten to death several times without a definite solution presented yet. If you, or any one else, happen to have the definitive info on when and where the versus white space issue was settled, I'm all ears, I may have missed it. The interesting part here would be to find out when (and how) the non-break space was promoted to be a character instead of a space. Until that issue is finally resolved once and for all, the HTML4.01 snips... "SGML line break rules..." and "authors should not rely on..." ...stands as written... -- Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> <URL:http://member.newsguy.com/%7Ejrexon/>
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