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Re: lynx-dev Re: making Web pages universally usable: 10 steps to succes


From: pg
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: making Web pages universally usable: 10 steps to success
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:33:18 -0600 (MDT)

In a recent note, Nelson H. F. Beebe said:

> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:51:53 -0600 (MDT)
> 
> I quote (and highlight the critical phrase):
> 
>       The HTML specification additionally requires an application to
>       squeeze all multiple white-space characters to a single space
>       in mixed context as well, and to omit any white-space
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>       immediately following a start-tag and immediately before
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                          ???
Do they perhaps mean "or" rather than "and" here?  As written, it
applies only to white-space which is the entire content of a tag
pair.

>       end-tags, but not other forms of white-space.
>       ^^^^^^^^
> 
> This is an important point: it means that the _'s (representing a
> physical space or newline) ... must be squeezed out entirely
> 
Not disputing the accuracy of your reporting, but I'm not sure
I like that.  It means I can't use:

<PRE>


</PRE>

to force vertical white space.  I suppose I can instead:

<PRE>&nbsp;


&nbsp;</PRE>

-- gil
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