- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 17:04:12 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 6:40p -0400 07/14/97, Liam Quinn wrote:
>
> Even with this argument, I wonder how justifiable it is to argue that the
> non-breaking space is not a space, when it has the word "space" in its
> name. If it were called the non-breaking transparent glyph... :)
Hehehe. :) Well, it's not so much what letters are in its name, but
rather whether it should be considered whitespace. Now, what exactly is
"whitespace"? I think it is bytes which do not convey information in
themselves, and serve only as separators. Non-breaking spaces do infact
convey information, and thus are unsafe to collapse. Yes, multiple
s are a hack, but this hack is purely in response to this whole
collapsing thing which does not exist in "normal" documents, and also
because <pre> is not an inline element.
> > > 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).
>
> Navigator 3.0 doesn't support the BACKGROUND attribute of table cells.
Yes it does -- it is *table* background that Nav3 does not support.
Table *cell* background is supported.
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