Re: path: revised lynx-dev.html

[Leonid Pauzner]

11-Apr-99 18:17 Philip Webb wrote:
> 990411 Tom Dickey & Doug Kaufman wrote:
>> For some reason, you seem to have added <br> at the end of each line.
>> Except for  places where this is meaningful, it should probably be
>> avoided. It reads well. I would recommend the following grammar
>> correction.
>> yes - we had a discussion about this last year
>> (if I notice unnecessary <br>'s in a patch, I'll remove them).

> i have better things to do than pursue an argument about this, but:

> (1) having put the time in to do the work,
>     i deserve to decide how to present it to the user,
>     unless there is something clearly awkward or wrong;
> (2) you don't read the source, you read the rendered version:
>     the <br>'s serve to divide the lines at natural breaks in phrasing
>     & the ordinary user never sees them;

Different users may have different screen width (not only 80 col)
and HTML documents will be rendered accordingly.  So the documents
within <pre></pre> or with <br> will not be good looking at different size.
Nothing more.
(And this is really important in GUI world where a user may want
to change a font height or window size).

> (3) <br> is a perfectly valid item in HTML for authors to use when they want:
>     if most people use it less often,
>     that may be because they are untidy or thoughtless;
> (4) if we had a discussion about this, my lay-out prevailed:
>     this is not the same issue as the one about <br><br>'s;
> (5) there is nothing grammatically wrong with the line as i wrote it,
>     but that's too trivial to argue about.

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