LYNX-DEV Lynx handling of IMG and white space

[Alan J. Flavell]

Friends,

I just noticed for the first time (with some astonishment) that
the display (at least by Lynx 2.7) of the following two constructs
was the same, with a space inserted between the ALT text and the
following text:

<IMG ... ALT="*">Some text
<IMG ... ALT="*"> Some text

unlike emacs-w3 where, as I'd expected, the first one was displayed
with the ALT text crammed against the text.

Not that I would ever _recommend_ people to do this:

<IMG SRC="big-L.gif" alt="L">ynx

but the fact is, people _do_ this kind of thing, and I'm surprised that
Lynx invents a white space where there was none in the source.  (Of the
graphical browsers that I tried, MS IE (3.02) also invented a white space,
but NS and Opera didn't). 

Is this an issue that has been discussed?  I'm surprised that I haven't
seen it come up before.

[I'd appreciate a copy of any reply, as I don't subscribe to
lynx-dev myself]

thanks
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