[6069] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Hollander)
Thu Oct 6 19:42:43 1994
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 00:38:33 +0100
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From: Dave Hollander <dmh@hpfcma.fc.hp.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> > The logic seems back to front. Putting a <P> at the beginning of a
> > paragraph
> > (the </P> is optional and rarely used) marks a para without line breaks
> > eaxctly as in a word processor. The original use of <P> at the end to
> > break a para was probably more natural but bad sgml.
>
> Really? I thought the concensus was to encapsulate paragraphs in <P>,
> and that it *was* good SGML (and allowed things like <P ALIGN=CENTER>,
> which we really REALLY want).
>From an SGML perspective, <p>...</p> contains PCDATA which means line breaks
are not significant. They may exist but will be treated as just a space.
It is easy in SGML to state that the endtag is to omitted.
> > TEXTAREA fields should always word wrap exactly as a word processor, and
> > are aesthetically, and in human factors, exactly what a word processor
> > user would expect.
>
> What browser does this for you? None of the ones I've tested do, I don't
> think....
Indeed, the ones I use (x,mac) just use the line breaks in the content.
Has anyone been able to dump a large amount of text into a TEXTAREA
and have it show up right on WinMosaic? What are the standards for
this and when (if it does not now) will WinMosaic work right.
Dave Hollander
