- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:42:09 -0700
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Holger Struppek wrote: > You can use SPACER in three different ways... Yes. So? I questioned the complexity of the attributes, not the tag. Compare your examples with equivalent examples using only HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes: a1) <SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=width> a2) <SPACER WIDTH=width> b1) <SPACER TYPE=VERTICAL SIZE=height> b2) <BR><SPACER HEIGHT=height> c1) <SPACER TYPE=BLOCK WIDTH=width HEIGHT=height ALIGN=alignment> c2) <SPACER WIDTH=width HEIGHT=height ALIGN=alignment> In case b2 a <BR> is required, but the pair of tags is still shorter. > Actually I like the idea of this tag... I didn't question the idea of the tag. I asked for a logical reason for the seemingly unecessary complexity, and so far no one has given me one. As far as I can see, the tag would make more sense as a block element, period, and I can't understand why anyone would muck it up, except, perhaps, to obfuscate the fact that this is simply the IMG tag without an image. regards, David
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