- From: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 10:18:46 +0300
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Cc: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, "Jukka Korpela" <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>, <www-html@w3.org>, <unicode@unicode.org>
At 15:33 11/05/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote: >Within an HTML document there is markup and there is displayed text. >Blurring that distinction by associating conditions for the display of >a particular character based on that character's post-formatted >position would change the whole notion of displayed text -- a very bad >precedent at odds with current practice. The distinction is already blurred. What about SPACE? I remember the ISO committees used to argue whether SPACE was a graphic character or a control character. In HTML it is not a simple graphic character either. SHY and NBSP also are "in-between". The fact that nearly nobody implements SHY and NBSP correctly according to 8859 is beside the point. Anyhow, I think SHY and NBSP represent obsolete solutions to the problems they intended to address, and today markup based solutions seem to be more appropriate. For example, I don't think it is useful or friendly to go over a document and insert SHY in all occurances of a certain word, should I wish to be sure your browser hyphenates it the way I want. It would be nicer if I could declare it just once. Also, I need a way of saying "do not hyphenate this word", which SHY cannot do. Jonathan
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