--On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 2:47 am -0300 "Nicolás Lichtmaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> There's absolutelly no reason for doing so. You aren't >>> following the stamdard more closely with that. >> Oh yes, there is a reason. Using omittags to the fullest extent, >> one may indeed get rid of a lot of markup, but then as a human, I get >> confused (unless I happen to be very familair with the DTD). I, too, >> tend not to omit tags at all (after all, that is not a hardship for >> me, since I have an intelligent editor). It also makes the >> indentation prettier (and easier to scan) that way, for humans. > > But that is completelly subjective (is that an English word?). I personally > find it nicer to have as little markup as posible (while still having a > perfectly DTD compliant document) and a good identation =). The specific problem with the <p> tags is that many people misunderstand them, and many browsers appear to interpret <p> tags the way that people expect them to work (i.e. put some space here) rather than the way they should work. For this reason, I recommend the paired form, since that is completely clear. Of course, I do use omit tags myself - I almost always omit </li> on short lists, and </td> in tables. Maybe we need a policy on this. Maybe it doesn't matter :-) Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | Debian GNU/Linux - "Microsoft *does* have a year 2000 problem - | | and we're it!" (paraphrased from IRC) | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
