- From: Chris Josephes <cpj1@visi.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:02:49 -0500 (CDT)
- To: David Siegel <dave@verso.com>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, David Siegel wrote: > I want to call your attention to the fact that there is no way to denote a > first-paragraph using HTML markup, and this makes it very difficult to do > good typography without recoding our pages using the <DIV> tag. I am > referring, of course, to the fact that in real typography you don't indent > the first paragraph, that indents are <i>separators,</i> not "paragraph > beginners." Both Todd and I have mentioned this several times, and to me, > it shows that the priorities of the people writing HTML specs are on > syntax, not on functionality. While it probably isn't going to be more efficient than a DIV tage, why not try this.... <p class=firstpar>This is the first paragraph </p> <p>This is the second paragraph </p> And then throw in the necessary styles to differentiate the two. > "Simplicity... elegance... cross-platform compatibility." Couldn't have said it better. --- Christopher Josephes ------------------------- mailto:cpj1@visi.com Vector Internet http://www.visi.com/~cpj1
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