- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:07:41 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 08:41 AM 14/07/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote: > >Liam Quinn wrote: >> I'm sure that was fun... Now how is declaring the non-breaking space >as >> collapsible different than deprecating elements like FONT? > >Current usage of consecutive   is common. Declaring it as wrong >immediately renders thousands of pages illegal. No one is suggesting declaring multiple non-breaking spaces as illegal-- just collapsing. There's a big difference. The HTML 4.0 draft recommends ignoring empty paragraphs, yet there are thousands of pages that use empty paragraphs for spacing (or because of a misunderstanding of which elements close paragraphs, e.g., <P><CENTER>Foo</CENTER></P>). >Since most browsers now >treat   as if it were a character, with no special processing, it >would be better to leave the situation as it is, with no formal >declaration of 'correct' use, than it would be to declare common usage >unequivocally wrong. So what about the empty paragraph thing? The expired HTML 3.0 draft stated that the non-breaking space "should be treated in the same way as the space character (ASCII character code 32 decimal), except that the user agent should never break lines at this point." [1] I assume there was a reason for making this rather definite statement about the behaviour of the non-breaking space. Perhaps when Dave Raggett returns he can offer some insight into this. [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/specialchars.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8qjKw/JhtXygIx1AQFhOQMAuTdH4pj//g4Ia+pPuw9gp4/7ynXSATWA XT7wnd8BCxsOITSYJd4QJLaNgRhn65Jyp8/kieGBtT49e+K5YZx/Y5SH5tcNC0pa +hxr/muM10d/moQ/D7Hk9rSrEgrep0kQ =psRh -----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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