- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <spip@hol.gr>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:15:32 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: Simon Middleton <smiddleton@acorn.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Simon Middleton wrote:
> The question is, if you discard a newline after a start tag and collapse
> whitespace surely the example should become
>
> <P> This example shows a paragraph and a list.
>
> ie a paragraph with a space at the start.
That is how the "big two" render it. But then again the "big two" render a
paragraph differently with an end-tag and without an end-tag, so they're
hardly a reference point...
> Presumably there is some other bit of SGML behaviour that dictates that the
> collapsed whitespace is itself dropped? If so should a note be added because
> as it stands the equating of the two doesn't make sense.
I don't know if it's SGML or HTML-specific, but whitespace after a tag is
deleted, not collapsed.
This DOES pose problems, though. What about whitespace after an inline IMG,
when you might *want* a space to be present? Using an is a hack,
since you might actually want it to be breakable (I love coining
technojargon :))
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