Re: simulating <br>

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 17:40:19 +0200, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> Désolé Vincent, but this is not a question of semantics. It
> is a question of common practice. Dozens of millions of web
> pages have been published where multiple-<BR> equals
> multiple-line-breaks.

The common practice isn't a good reason. Or at least, several
<BR>'s should be regarded as bad HTML.

> BR is what people expect it to be. I don't think that any
> browser/editor vendor will ever run against that, at least
> for HTML ;-)

I wish the browsers I use could collapse <BR>'s. There are pages that
use too many of them and need to be scrolled too much often.

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Received on Wednesday, 25 October 2000 11:58:03 UTC