Re: Spacing (was IMG in PRE?)

• From: Stuart Harris <sirrah@cg57.esnet.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 13:10:34 -0700 (PDT)
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <m0uJQQV-0001WcC@cg57.esnet.com>

W.I.K. spake:
> One thing we definitely need, at least for representing computer source
> code, is the ability to prevent collapsing multiple spaces. If I need to
> display a literal of "qd  " (4 characters, spaces significant), it must
> NOT get munged by the browser. What I have to do currently is place a
> comment next to it, stating that there are two spaces there. I tried
> using <pre> and <tt> and <code> -- none were satisfactory (<tt> and
> <code> did not prevent collapsing, and <pre> added line breaks and was
> therefore unusable inline).

Why don't we just persuade AoL to accept &nbsp; as the entity Walter (and the 
rest of us) need. They're the only browser out of step on this, unless I'm 
misinformed.

Regards,
Stu Harris

Received on Tuesday, 14 May 1996 16:30:09 UTC