- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:59:26 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> with is the <br/> seems that netscape and exployer 6.0 does not like. I'm The real problems with the BR element are that it is abused, e.g. the broken HTML that you, redundantly, included abuses it, and that that the GUI browsers implement it like a hard newline character whereas the original intention was that it was a line break character (i.e. it produces no effect if already at the start of a line). Nowadays, most uses of BR should actually use P. <br/> is invalid in HTML (<br /) is technically invalid, but generally works. The dominant browser is not an XML browser, so can only cope with the compatibility mode, that relies on error recovery to tolerate the /, but only if separated by a space. Serious abuse of HTML follows. > we cannot have one language that can do all?<BR> > &nbs= > p; &n= > bsp; = > <BR>
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