- From: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 18:57:29 -0400
- To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
:>Technically multiple <BR> tags are supposed to be collapsed to one tag. :>So <BR><BR> may as well be <BR> - of course, Netscape does not do this. :>Personally I'd like to see the spec changed to NOT collapse it as it is :>useful in forcing some whitespace. But let's put that aside. :> :>My point is that some browser may do what is technically correct, and then :>you won't get the effect you expect. So using <P> is safer. The closing :>tag is optional. I always use it, but leaving it off is valid. I only have one question: When was the last time you operated on an Adobe Sitemill created document? I had the misfortune recently. I probable spent more time fixing it than I would have if I marked up the text by hand. Sections that looked like: <p> Paragraph text<br> <br> Next paragraph<br> <br> [etc] all indented with multiple <blockquote>s to indent it enough to get past the background image and carelessly wrapped with <center>s where ever it seemed to feel good, and all images NATURALSIZEFLAG'ed to death, and I couldn't figure out if this was Net-escapism or not, as it didn't appear to have any affect on any version of Net-escape I used. I can't wait until some of the site authoring "tools" are just a smidge more thoughful in their markup, or at least allow you to output multiple documents for multiple browser devises. It may be too much to hope for that Site-Ill will support CSS or DSSSL any time soon, not that the currently most popular browser would care much if it did. Matt
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