[6355] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CENTER element [Was: Netscape & New HTML]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lou Montulli)
Thu Oct 27 06:37:04 1994
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 11:24:55 +0100
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From: "Lou Montulli" <montulli@strumpet.mcom.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
On Oct 25, 3:13pm, Tony Sanders wrote:
> Subject: Re: CENTER element [Was: Netscape & New HTML]
> > > and <P ALIGN=CENTER> makes little sense
> > > given that (a) standard practice is that <P> is end of paragraph, not
> > > a container,
> My, how quickly history is rewritten; <P> has never marked the end of a
> paragraph. The rule was that <P>'s and </P>'s should be implied where
> they are obvious.
That's not true. The original CERN spec, which BTW never included
a DTD, specified <p> as a paragraph separator and never had a </p>.
Trying to make <p> into a container now IS rewritting history and
breaks many current implementations, and in my opionion is a very
bad idea. We should try and write the spec to coexist peacefully
with existing practice rather than breaking everything and forceing
rewrites.
--
Lou Montulli http://mosaic.mcom.com/people/montulli/
Mozilla Development Team It's spelled 'Netscape', it's pronouced 'Mozilla'
