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- >Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 23:20:56 -0500
- >From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
- >
- >How about having two <PRE> style tags. One works just like existing
- <PRE>
- >and another tag that (probably) doesn't use the fixed-width font but
- does
- >preserves spaces and tabs as much as possible and allows full HTML
- mark-up.
- >It will be the task of the browser to make this look good.
-
-
- I am sceptical. The significance of HT (the character)
- in PRE (the element) is to go to the "next" tab stop
- after the current position.
- If you don't know the relative font sizes, you can't predict
- where you will be, and so what the next stop will be.
- Any tabbing arrangement which allows variable width
- characters must therefore change the significance to
- "go to the left most tab stop you haven't used so far"
- and wrap the text when it reaches a tab stop by itself.
- Now we have tables. And when we have tables, we will need
- lines in them of various types, and column headings and
- things. And it will be good but it won't be tabs.
-
-
- ...[...]....
- >shooting ourselves in the foot. SGML bigots are missing the big
- picture,
- >99.999% of the existing data *doesn't have* semantic information and
- no
- >one gives a shaving cream about it; we just want it online and some
- of us
- >would like to access it via hypertext.
- ...
- >--sanders
-
-
- Nicely put! :-)
- HTML has to bridge between the 99.999% and rendering-
- free SGML whose justification we also all know.
-
- Tim
-
-