- From: RCI <robert_ingham_uk@yahoo.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:09:05 +0100 (BST)
- To: webmaster@richinstyle.com, www-html@w3.org
--- Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com> wrote: > RCI wrote: > > Although there might be other uses for empty <P>s, > > the best way to generate vertical white-space, > > ... > I think what you mean is extra whitespace beyond the > defaults that > current implementations have in their UA style > sheets. RCI> Yes. > ... > (I recently had to clean up a site > someone had done in > Front Page, and it was such a mess of redundant > tables, superfluous FONT > elements and other such garbage that I found it was > quicker just to cut > and paste the text from the rendering in a browser > and rebuild the > markup from scratch), > ... > The role of <br> is not to create whitespace; in > fact, no HTML element > should be used to create any kind of formatting > effects - HTML is used > to markup text; i.e., to mark what the doucment > contains - paragraphs, > headings, etc.; and _not_ to specify how it should > be rendered. > RCI> Points taken. As I use a text-editor, not a pseudo-WYSIWYG tool, and try to avoid using B,I,U etc. elements, then tag-soup is something I'm not guilty of. Perhaps the tag-soupers don't have the benefit of having used tools such as 'nroff' and 'Runoff' before 'word processors' became common. Also, in WordPerfect 5.1 you could see the codes! ===== Computer Classics (one of a series) Keyboard Error: press F1 to continue ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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