[6404] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CENTER element [Was: Netscape & New HTML]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe English)
Fri Oct 28 02:25:16 1994
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 07:10:08 +0100
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From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
Lou Montulli <montulli@strumpet.mcom.com> wrote:
> On Oct 25, 3:13pm, Tony Sanders wrote:
> > 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>.
Which was, in retrospect, a very bad idea.
> 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.
Making <P> a container instead of a separator
breaks very few existing documents. (It may
break old implementations, but so will anything
new. Adding <IMG>, <FORM>, and <CENTER> "broke"
old implementations in the same way.)
Text outside of paragraphs is still legal, it's just
not recommended. <P> as a container *makes more sense*
and will prove to be more useful in the long run.
--Joe English
jenglish@crl.com
Container, container, container!
