- From: Arnoud <galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 20:29:15 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Just another thing that has bugging me for some time. The non-breaking space entity is used by many people right now to create horizontal whitespace. In Netscape et al, produces more whitespace than just . Although it would seem that this is against the spec, there is no explicit mention of this. The expired HTML 3 draft did require that collapses into one space, but the Wilbur draft does not. I would like to propose that the Wilbur spec (once it comes out) explicitly states that should be treated in the same way as the space character (ASCII character code 32 decimal), except that the user agent should never break lines at this point. It is useful when you want to ensure that neigbouring words always stay together and don't get split across lines. in other words, *require* that is collapsed into one space. OTOH, it *is* current practice in Netscape, so perhaps it should be defined in Wilbur as non-collapsing as well? Galactus -- To find out more about PGP, send mail with HELP PGP in the SUBJECT line to me. E-mail: galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl - Please PGP encrypt your mail if you can. Finger galactus@turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl for public key (key ID 0x416A1A35). Anonymity and privacy site: <http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~galactus/remailers/>
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