--On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 6:59 pm +0200 "Jacob Sparre Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
