Hi,
>>"Craig" == Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Craig> So it's optional. I don't use them myself as it is not
Craig> recommended by many of the web designers here or in fact in
Craig> any of the books I've read.
I suggest you start looking for other web designers to follow
--On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 8:11 am +1000 "Craig Small"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Start tag: required, End tag: optional
>
> So it's optional. I don't use them myself as it is not recommended
> by many of the web designers here or in fact in any of the books I've
> read.
We already agreed
[Nicol_s Lichtmaier] wrote:
> > 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 should be thought of as 'put space
> > here'.
> >
> > Personally, I think we shoul
> The specific problem with the tags is that many people misunderstand
> them, and many browsers appear to interpret tags the way that people
> expect them to work (i.e. put some space here) rather than the way they
> should work.
It's amazing to see the Big Companies, with their Big Bucks, ign
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:40:43PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> --On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 10:40 am +0200 "Dirk Niemeyer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > We should also consider using "height=xxx" and "width=xxx" for the IMG
> > tag
> > as this makes rendering easier for the browsers. I always sit
Hi,
>>"Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jules> --On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 2:47 am -0300 "Nicolás Lichtmaier"
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But that is completelly subjective (is that an English word?).
Jules> Of course, I do use omit tags myself - Maybe we need a
Jules> polic
--On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 10:40 am +0200 "Dirk Niemeyer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We should also consider using "height=xxx" and "width=xxx" for the IMG
> tag
> as this makes rendering easier for the browsers. I always sit in front
> of
> an empty display for a while and the browser tells me i
--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
We should also consider using "height=xxx" and "width=xxx" for the IMG
tag
as this makes rendering easier for the browsers. I always sit in front
of
an empty display for a while and the browser tells me it is loading x kb
of
this and y kb of that and finally everything pops up.
Using the additi
>> 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
Hi,
>>"Nicolás" == Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Personally, I think we should aim for properly paired ... tags in
>> pages we produce. Mine do, mostly.
Nicolás> There's absolutelly no reason for doing so. You aren't
Nicolás> following the stamdard more closely with that.
> 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 should be thought of as 'put space
> here'.
>
> Personally, I think we should aim for properly paired ... tags in
>
On 11-Oct-98 Jules Bean wrote:
> Personally, I think we should aim for properly paired ... tags in
> pages we produce. Mine do, mostly.
I agree. Infact, I will use only properly paired tags and will correct them
when I find them and can. I was only making a point that it's not "required"
by th
--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 Nets
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.
What
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, I always thought that stand-alone was how the paragraph tag was
> orginially defined and therefore would be historicly correct...
Not only historicaly but also by definition. Here is a quotation
from
---snip
9.3.1 Paragraphs: the
Jules Bean writes:
> That's not the correct use of the tag. The tag is a container for a
> paragraph, as in This is a short paragraph. It should not be used to
> simply insert space like that.
>
> Two possibilites are - enclose each QA pair in a ... pair, or put
> s in between them ( is a sta
On 11-Oct-98 Jules Bean wrote:
> --On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 10:32 pm +0200 "Philipp Frauenfelder"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is a niggle, but we're professionals here.
>
> That's not the correct use of the tag. The tag is a container for a
> paragraph, as in This is a short paragrap
--On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 10:32 pm +0200 "Philipp Frauenfelder"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - 2.0/HOWTO.upgrade.wml: at the end, there is a short faq. It's
> enclosed in , so the browser doesn't format the text
> nicely. I'd prever it being formatted like this:
>
>
> Question:
> Here comes the
On 10-Oct-98 Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
> Secondly, I've encountered already two pages which don't have a
> real good layout:
Go ahead and make those changes if they're not already done.
=
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