- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 00:58:11 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:45 AM 13/07/97 -0400, Jordan Reiter wrote: >At 4:11 AM -0000 7/13/97, Liam Quinn wrote: >>Not really, except perhaps that multiple spaces (non-breaking or >>otherwise) are not structural elements and thus should be ignored. HTML >>4.0 defines the entity as a method for prohibiting a line break. >>If we accept as a non-collapsing, non-breaking space, HTML 4.0's >>definition would have to be augmented to also define as a method >>for forcing a space. But the fact that multiple spaces have nothing to do >>with structure and everything to do with presentation suggests that non- >>collapsible spaces have no place in HTML. >I'm not positive about this, but I'm guessing there are many instances in >which more than one space is applicable to content rather than simply >appearance. I know, for example, that a sentence is normally supposed to >be followed by two spaces, for whatever reason. For the same reason that paragraphs are sometimes indented five spaces: presentation. I can use one, two, or three spaces after a sentence and it won't change the structure, just the presentation. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8hgYg/JhtXygIx1AQFxggMAlmtBqcNaBJ6SB9XbJs6YGSPgujpjspgq r8uAf8q5CV7Y6FyOWk0nzbIug1k/hfEkyFtI44gwKYHhyzYAPilvVQjXLrL8Rx5j /gu4uNKgZQWJWYujWESoatmcqP8fxP1f =e3ih -----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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