- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:12:44 -0700
- To: "Arnoud \"Galactus\" Engelfriet" <galactus@htmlhelp.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote: > Well, that's their problem. :-) Shouldn't they be using a stylesheet > to achieve that kind of visual effect? Have the properties that can do the job been implemented yet? It would be nice to have margins and explicit width on inline elements. A few months ago, MS's goal was a "full CSS1 implementation" in the next release of IE. I hope they're up to the task. Then we could apply style properties to SPACER, right? > The reason in favor is "non-breaking space is a space, and spaces > collapse". There is logic to that pedantry, but the more useful interpretation should prevail. > 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. I agreed that the behavior should be stated in the spec. And since collapsing multiple consecutive BR and   reduces functionality and not collapsing has no negative side effects for authors, neither should be collapsed. David Perrell
Received on Sunday, 13 July 1997 15:20:26 UTC