From: Jay K. <Jay.Kominek@Colorado.EDU> - 2001-05-14 14:32:41
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Bret Martin wrote: > copper\n > Symbol: Cu\n > Atomic number: 29\n > Atomic weight: 63.54\n > Red-brown transition element. Known by the Romans as 'cuprum.' Extracted and used for thousands of years. Malleable, ductile and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. When in moist conditions, a greenish layer forms on the outside.\n > > Then a client can leave the formatted lines at the top as is and wrap > the paragraph at the end appropriately for the display it appears on. > > The main problem I see with doing things this way is that it is not > what our existing client base expects. Trying to define the way whitespace should act, and the way in which it should be used in a completely losing proposition in my book. (Look at the whole indentation thing in code, noone can decide how many spaces a tab should be, and certianly not how much space should be used total, and whether or not it should be mixed, etc, etc, etc, ad nasum) I realize that noone is advocating that I change the elements, but I'd like to point out that I have no intention to adjusting the white space formatting. If XHTML definition data becomes popular, I would switch to that, but anything else is a waste of effort. - Jay Kominek <jay...@co...> Waiting Is. |