[6287] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CENTER element [Was: Netscape & New HTML]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Fri Oct 21 16:51:02 1994
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 21:47:35 +0100
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
In message <199410211853.AA10459@crl.crl.com>, Joe English writes:
>
>In comp.infosystems.www.misc,
>in article <marca-2010940637410001@gator1.mcom.com>,
>marca@mcom.com (Marc Andreessen) wrote:
>
>====
>
>PROPOSAL:
>
> That a CENTER element (described below) be added to
> the next revision of the HTML standard.
[...]
>
>SUGGESTED RENDERING:
>
> CENTER implies a line break before and after the element.
[...]
>
>IMPACT ON EXISTING IMPLEMENTATIONS:
>
> None. Existing browsers can safely ignore the CENTER
> start- and end- tags; the resulting display will
> still be a correct rendering of the document content.
This looks contradictory to me.
If a body writes:
<h1> here's some stuff</h1>
<p> normal para
<center> centered text</center>
then today's browsers will blur the "centered text" with the "normal
para".
So it appears that <center> does have impact on existing browsers.
Deploying new block level elements is somewhat problematic.
Given that, the DIV or DIVISION element seems like a better idea.
Gee... this looks more and more like SDL all the time. I suppose
that's inevitable.
Dan
