Re: layout of web pages
--On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 6:59 pm +0200 "Jacob Sparre Andersen"
<sparre@cats.nbi.dk> wrote:
> Philipp:
>
> | Summary: no end tag required but discouraged for additional
> | white space (empty paragraph).
>
> The end tag is _not_ discouraged. It is not _necessary_. The extra space
> you get in Netscape when you have both start and end tags on P elements is
> due to a serious bug in that browser.
Exactly. In fact, Netscape's handling of heading and paragraphs is
atrocious. Maybe it inherited the foolishness from Mosaic - I can't
remember. The point, anyway, is that <p> should be thought of as 'put space
here'.
Personally, I think we should aim for properly paired <p>...</p> tags in
pages we produce. Mine do, mostly.
Jules
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