- From: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:23:53 +0100
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-html-editor@w3.org>
Jukka Korpela:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Bertilo Wennergren wrote:
> > <div align="justify">
> > makes a doc invalid if I label it as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but
> > gives no error if I relabel the doc as HTML 4.01 Transitional.
> > Is this an oversight in the XHTML Transitional DTD?
> Probably. There's no reason to think that the change was intentional;
> it would assumably have been mentioned if it were.
> [...]
> and it is used similarly. So it seems that there was an oversight
> when the entity was renamed; somehow justify was dropped away.
Thanks for confirming this.
> (On the other hand, justify works _so_ poorly that it should be used
> with extreme care only, see
> http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/www/justify.html
Indeed. So fortunately this error is not a big practical problem.
Furthermore, browsers that do handle "justify" probably handle CSS
as well, and that's where "justify" belongs anyway.
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Bertilo Wennergren
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