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Re: path: revised lynx-dev.html
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Philip Webb |
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Re: path: revised lynx-dev.html |
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Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:17:20 -0400 (EDT) |
990411 Tom Dickey & Doug Kaufman wrote:
> For some reason, you seem to have added <br> at the end of each line.
> Except for places where this is meaningful, it should probably be
> avoided. It reads well. I would recommend the following grammar
> correction.
> yes - we had a discussion about this last year
> (if I notice unnecessary <br>'s in a patch, I'll remove them).
i have better things to do than pursue an argument about this, but:
(1) having put the time in to do the work,
i deserve to decide how to present it to the user,
unless there is something clearly awkward or wrong;
(2) you don't read the source, you read the rendered version:
the <br>'s serve to divide the lines at natural breaks in phrasing
& the ordinary user never sees them;
(3) <br> is a perfectly valid item in HTML for authors to use when they want:
if most people use it less often,
that may be because they are untidy or thoughtless;
(4) if we had a discussion about this, my lay-out prevailed:
this is not the same issue as the one about <br><br>'s;
(5) there is nothing grammatically wrong with the line as i wrote it,
but that's too trivial to argue about.
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Re: path: revised lynx-dev.html, dickey, 1999/04/11