- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:43:53 -0400
- To: Stephanos Piperoglou <spip@hol.gr>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 02:58 PM 14/07/97 +0300, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote: >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. >------------------ >Ergo, doesn't collapse To me this is the most valid argument made. But is there some kind of standard (e.g., ISO 8859-1 or Unicode) that says that whitespace is "only tabs, spaces and newlines"? >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. They might just because it's HTML and that means they don't have to learn CSS. Look at all the people still using <FONT FACE> and friends. I guess some would justify that based on browser support, but there are people who use the BACKGROUND attribute for table cells even though the CSS equivalent is better supported. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8ofCA/JhtXygIx1AQF/GwL9HGqnN5lBVR2RvOCnAXqOZ9bEYEiDqMiG DYVSPXXq5g+7S3HqxmxptRWHBxk0ovOwrvyhgzURPhnHFnXjNpviaOf5YD57qBcw iAatLEVBwl8vwlXGY5WGlrL9Ng17JfQi =QXxc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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