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Re: SPaces and Tabs in HTML documents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave_Raggett)
Mon Jun 14 07:12:10 1993
From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 12:08:36 BST
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
> You are right. Actually tabs are mentioned in the PRE part, but
> nowhere else. The general understanding (before Mosaic) was that
> - Multiple spaces should be respected as such (for example
> some people like them around punctuation) and should not
> be used for prettying up the source.
> - Tabs should not be used outside PRE
> I would like to specify that multiple spaces be interpreted as such.
> Would this be a big problem for anyone?
This doesn't sound right to me. Like Mosaic, I too, treat whitespace
as separators, and ignore how many spaces, carriage returns, newlines
or tabs there are.
Showing more space after punctuation is a rendering issue and should
be left to the reader's preference.
Dave Raggett
