Re: lynx-dev <BR> does not accumulate

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what Philip Webb said:

> moreover, collapsing <BR>'s was not part of Lynx till 2-7,
> when some anonymous developer slipped it into the code without warning.

Anonymous?

Quoting from

   Linkname: HTML markup handling changes to Lynx2-6 to create Lynx2-7
        URL: http://www.peru.edu/~kincaid/lynx/html26b.html#BR

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  CHANGES:
  
   BR
     * Added a COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS compilation and configuration symbol for
       determinining whether Lynx collapses serial BR tags. Note that the
       valid way to create extra blank lines in HTML is with PRE blocks
       that contain only newlines. - FM (1996-12-14)
       
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At least in the eyes of the "anonymous" maintainer who signed
that entry in the change log, <BR><BR> was something other than
'the valid way' to create extra blank lines in HTML.

Al