Chris Williams wrote: > Please stop telling me what I want. I want two spaces. Period (pun > intended). I want the width of the white space following a full stop to be > exactly twice the width of the space between words. That is, two spaces in > the current font. > > Therefore, I want a browser to give me two spaces, one guaranteed to be > contiguous to the preceding character, and one that it is free to break on > to the next line. The first one is, therefore, a non-breaking space, the > second one is a normal, breakable space. > > >> From: Chris McLay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [css-d] Double space after a period >> >> No it's not. You want a larger space for legibility. Two more cents worth: while you are correct in asserting that as the designer you have the right to design the page as you see fit, there is one ua that is often neglected in discussions of this nature. That ua is the text-to-speech converter that the blind rely on to surf web pages. If you run your page through one of these (in Windows, the HTML-kit editor has it), you will hear it faithfully pronounce "ampersand-n-b-s-p-semicolon" in its inimical deadpan synthetic voice, on every single instance. Having once run a page that was created by a clueless Frontpage user through the text-to-speech converter, I couldn't shut the thing off fast enough. That taught me a lesson and I now will never again use that non-breaking space, period (also intended).
You, however, have the right to do as you wish. ~M ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
