Re: In support of the "line space" (nee <hr>)

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 09:48:00 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:

>At 2002-08-25T09:03+0200, Jan Roland Eriksson wrote:-
>> There is nothing wrong with a content-less element (its syntactical
>> markup shall be Ok of course) its only a matter of mathematical
>> amateurs to grow up and start recognizing 'zero' as a valid value
>> among values.

>This argument is specious: there is nothing wrong with a contentless
>element per se, but an empty section is not the same thing as a separator
>between sections.

The original discussion, that has trickled down to this part of
message exchange, started when I gave three URL's to studies I made
quite some time ago to illustrate how to proceed if one wants to
display a containing element as fully enclosing a float within it
self.

  <http://css.nu/exp/layer-ex3b.html>
  <http://css.nu/exp/layer-ex3c.html>
  <http://css.nu/exp/layer-ex3d.html>

I also made it explicitly clear in my original post that "a cluefull
author naturally finds good use for the empty space that is available"
in my study examples.

>There ought to be no need to mark up such a separator explicitly.

True, although CSS does specify at least one specific way for how to
suggest the inclusions of a line break.

Still, at the end of the day we need a combination of clueful authors
and good tools if we want to keep the web accessible to all.

"Accessibility" is the keyword here, if it takes a nil content element
to suggest/enhance accessibility, that's a small penalty to pay.

But usually it is fully possible to use the available "empty space"
for a good cause, in which case this whole discussion becomes mute.

-- 
Rex

Received on Sunday, 25 August 2002 07:54:11 UTC