- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:53:14 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:04 PM 14/07/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >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. Non-breaking spaces serve as separators, just a special kind of separator. What information is conveyed by a non-breaking space? That there should be no line break, which simply describes the type of separation. > > > > 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. Can you provide some support for this? My test with Netscape 3.01 failed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8rJ+A/JhtXygIx1AQHLEQL/XKWvbJS6TASPlVQgeyjCmDSgd16cZ5Cq Jl86oaf5QLrDZoJbXUt31O2lAGdZsUXWCPZwhxOsN3zhNpQ+3SI/amnuONO88XK7 9BdSUJwD6bBu8HUpcU+0oPg3/t3IV2+l =gbP3 -----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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