Re: Some complaints about HTML 4.0

From Liam Quinn:
> At 06:59 PM 12/07/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote:
> >Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote:
> >> 2. There is definite statement on    being collapsing or
> >not.
> >
> >A statement there should definitely be, and it should definitely be
> >'not'.
> 
> Why?

The reason white space must collapse is to allow readable structured
markup. Author/designers commonly use multiple   to bypass that
limitation. Since consecutive   are there by intent, and the
intent is unambiguous, is there any logical reason why they should
collapse?

David Perrell

Received on Saturday, 12 July 1997 23:45:29 UTC