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- >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.
- >
- > 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.
- This can be solved in the browser (either by forcing a fixed width
- or by computing the tabs by look ahead within the element).
-
- > Now we have tables. And when we have tables, we will need
- Yes, tables might actually solve most of the problem.
-
- I was just offering a different way to think about the problem, which is
- that we don't have to choose whether whitespace is significant or not, if
- we need it to be significant just add an element that does what we need.
-
- I vote that by default whitespace not be significant, as several people
- have already argued for better than I could.
-
- --sanders
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