- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:13:08 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 12:53a -0400 07/13/97, Liam Quinn wrote:
> At 09:43 PM 12/07/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote:
> >Liam Quinn wrote:
> >> While we're on this topic... What about multiple BR elements?
> >Should
> >> these be collapsed?
> >
> >No, for the same reason as . HTML should not be an exercise in
> >pedantry. Choose the interpretation that provides the most power of
> >expression. Do not actively limit presentational possibilities for the
> >sake of structural Puritanism.
>
> So would you do away with the HTML 4.0 draft's comment concerning empty
> paragraphs:
>
> | Empty P elements are bad form and should be ignored by the renderer.
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/struct/text.html)
>
> Empty P elements are similar to multiple BR elements in a lot of ways...
Well, how would we do this in a word processor? We would set the style of
a paragraph to have a certain size "space-before" value. Anyone who would
use multiple returns needs to go read the book "The Mac is not a Typewriter"
(which really is about word processing in general).
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