[10113] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Structural Markup / SPACER vs. other markup (was: CSS and Eccentric Poems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ka-Ping Yee)
Thu Jul 4 08:34:45 1996
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 21:00:38 +0900
From: Ka-Ping Yee <s-ping@orange.cv.tottori-u.ac.jp>
To: Stephanos Piperoglou <stephanos@hol.gr>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Stephanos Piperoglou wrote:
>
> The third type ... whose name evades my memory ... is just a way of
> inserting an empty box in your document. I still don't get the ...
> usefullness of such an action!
I think it was BLOCK or something like that. And i'm pretty sure that
it was made a part of this five-minute SPACER hack just because someone
at Netscape noticed the proliferation of one-dot clear GIFs which
people are using as spacers.
But in every instance i've seen such one-dot GIFs used, they have
always been used for horizontal or vertical spacing of the type
easily covered by CSS, without exception. I have never seen such
spacers actually used as boxes of empty space.
Ping
