Re: "COMPACT" is not a member of a group specified for any attribute

[Richard Atterer <richard@2007.atterer.net>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:57:27AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote:
> AFAIK this attribute "compact" wasn't ever widely supported by the 
> browsers,

IIRC Netscape 4.7 did interpret it - the most popular browser at the time.

> and furthermore it's not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict and thus the page doesn't 
> validate[2].

I think the problem was only introduced when the site switched to HTML 4.01 
Strict - the attribute is marked deprecated for Transitional.

> It's been there ever since this page exists, but as long as nobody vetoes 
> I'll simpy remove it in the next days. Alternatively it could be replaced 
> by e.g. 'style="letter-spacing:whatever"', but I see no reason why this 
> synopsis needs to be listed compactly ...

IMHO, just remove it! BTW, I use the following CSS for <ul class="compact"> 
on one of my sites:

  ul.compact li { padding-bottom: 0ex; }

(For NS 4.7, the compact attribute removed the vertical spacing between 
bullets, it did not affect the letter spacing.)

Cheers,

  Richard

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