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- >Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 15:21:03 +0200
- >To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
- >
- >So far as I can tell, the HTML specification makes no mention of how
- >duplicated spaces and tabs are to be treated in HTML documents.
-
- You are right. Actually tabs are mentioned in the PRE part, but
- nowhere else. The general understanding (before Mosaic) was that
-
- - Multiple spaces should be respected as such (for example
- some people like them around punctuation) and should not
- be used for prettying up the source.
-
-
- - Tabs should not be used outside PRE
-
- - Within PRE, tabs are normal unix
- (>0 spaces to multiple of 8)
-
- I would like to specify that multiple spaces be interpreted as such.
- Would this be a big problem for anyone?
-
-
- There are a number of documents on the net which look very weird
- with non-mosaic browsers -- when I come across a bad one, I
- occasionally mail the author.
-
- In a year's time I expect much more HTML to be generated from wysiwyg
- editors, and so the question of eth readability of the source won't
- be relevant.
-
- Of course, you can put in all the source pretty formatting you like
- but if you once touch it with a wysiwyg editor, you'll probably lose
- it all anyway.
-
-
- > <p> Also, the two browsers have different ideas about whether
- the
- > ADDRESS tag marks a new paragraph or not -- www puts the
- address
- > flush right in a new paragraph, Mosaic simply switches to a
- > different typeface.
-
- There is in the hypertext document (and in the draft internet draft)
- a "typical rendering" defined for each of these elements. Browsers
- are not obliged to use this rendering. In the case of Mosaic, as far
- as I can see, nothing is ever justified other than left-justfied.
- That may be just the desiner's choice or a constraint of the
- implementation. It doesn't make them an invalid W3 browser, just
- not a typical one. (Even though there may be -- untill Cello gets
- seriouslsy deployed -- more XMosaics than anything other W3 clients)
-
- The ideal would be to make the styles user-configurable, with the
- "typical rendering" and the designer's personal favorites
- as an options.
-
- > Damian
-
- Tim
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-