- From: Arnoud <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:09:25 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
In article <199707130443.VAA06705@italy.it.earthlink.net>, "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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. The problem right now is that you as an author simply *do not know* whether <BR><BR> or will collapse or not. This makes it next to impossible to use it "properly", because you may very well be using an undocumented feature or error recovery side-effect. If the spec said "<BR><BR> collapses" or " is not a space, it just looks like one", then you could rely on this behaviour. -- E-mail: galactus@htmlhelp.com .................... PGP Key: 512/63B0E665 Maintainer of WDG's HTML reference: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/>
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