- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:50:19 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 08:36 PM 12/07/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >At 11:25p -0400 07/12/97, Liam Quinn wrote: > > At 08:16 PM 12/07/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > > >Syllogism: > > > > > >Major premise: Spaces collapse. > > >Minor premise: NBspace is not a space. (It's just rendered to look like > > one.) > > > Conclusion: Ergo, NBspaces do not collapse. > > > > Major premise: Spaces collapse. > > Minor premise: Newline is not a space. (It's just rendered to look like > > one.) > > Conclusion: Ergo, newlines do not collapse. > > > > I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here. I've seen good arguments for > > and against collapsing non-breaking spaces, and I just thought that David > > shouldn't be let off without giving an argument. > ><grin> Nice try, but if you're going to talk about whitespace in general, >then you'll have to note that the list of whitespace characters does not >include nbspace What list? While I believe that Perl does not include the non-breaking space in \s, I've never seen a formal definition of whitespace with regard to HTML, SGML, ISO-8859-1, etc. If you could direct me to one, I'd appreciate it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8hQeQ/JhtXygIx1AQG94gMAsqKnO5n8eFGaKf8i9D+tICuW3GG3Y1kc I0eJAW25fllzXqGdyco/fEsPxRH/FBye6RvDvuVEI6kaKO8KPdALYBHPs/lUROwS vTKAmx2Dqx0453cScl3oTuhb3+/9ReAS =uEQe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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