- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <spip@hol.gr>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:58:39 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Liam Quinn wrote:
> I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here. I've seen good arguments for
> and against collapsing non-breaking spaces, and I just thought that David
> shouldn't be let off without giving an argument.
I'm for non-breaking spaces not collapsing. The correct syllogism is:
- Only whitespace collapses
- Whitespace is only tabs, spaces and newlines
- is neither tab, space, or newline.
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Ergo, doesn't collapse
(Well, that's not a valid syllogism using mathematical logic, but, I
wouldn't want to bore you since it would take too much space :))
A period (.) doesn't collapse. Yet people might still use scores of periods
to seperate page numbers from headings in a table of contents, when it
should be done automatically. In my reckoning, to avoid wrong practise, you
can't just make it impossible. You just have to offer a viable alternative.
With CSS and CSS positioning there's no reason people will resort to
for creating spaces.
--
Stephanos "Pippis" Piperoglou - http://users.hol.gr/~spip/index.html
All I wanted in my life was a little love and a lot of money. In that order.
[ Failure is a crime. Defeat; an atrocity! ]
...oof porothika
Received on Monday, 14 July 1997 08:00:08 UTC