- From: eva <eva@algonet.se>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:59:23 +0200
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet <galactus@htmlhelp.com> > 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. As HTML claims to be a logical language then the statement: "The BR element forcibly breaks (ends) the current line of text" (text.html) must be understood as -- multiple <BR>s will collapse. In order to end (close) something, a line of text or anything else for that matter, that something must first be opened or eventually reopened. Try closing closed door. …. but then perhaps the language isn't as logical as it is claimed (why call nbsp a space when it is not?) /e
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