- From: Adam M. Costello <amc@cs.wustl.edu>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 21:57:39 GMT
- To: www-html@w3.org
"Lee Daniel Crocker" <lcrocker@calweb.com> says: > To sum up, there are two ways to look at > > 1. It's just like the letter "G", but using no ink. > 2. It's just like a space, except you can't break a line there. All the things fitting description 1 that I've ever heard of have been called "quad space", "em space", "en space", "thick space", or "thin space". If authors use "non-breaking space" in the manner it was intended to be used--to suppress line breaks--then they won't care whether description 1 or 2 applies. If I type 2 Aug 1996 do I really care whether there is a fixed predefined width for those spaces? Not likely. So it's no tragedy if browsers don't all agree. Description 2 should probably be acknowledged as better, but the simpler implementation allowed by description 1 should be considered sufficient. When authors want to space things out, they should use something else, like   or   (as soon as such things are supported). AMC
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