- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:14:52 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 8:43a -0400 07/14/97, Liam Quinn wrote:
> 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.
That's what I meant to write, honest! :)
> But is there some kind of
> standard (e.g., ISO 8859-1 or Unicode) that says that whitespace is "only
> tabs, spaces and newlines"?
I haven't been able to find any HTML definitions of whitespace, although the
RFC 822 definition works for me... (hmm, maybe I should go check IANA for a
text/html MIME spec... maybe find a clue there?)
> >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.
Better supported? It's not supported at all in Navigator 3.0, and many people
still use that (because Communicator is a monstrous disk/ram hog).
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