Re: LYNX-DEV BLOCKQUOTE and HEADINGS

[David Woolley]

PS
>         <centered>1.0 Document id
> 1.1 General
>     
>     Which is not all what I want to see. This is a bug. All other browsers
>     put the headings to the left as it should be. Actually netscape
>     shows nicely

If HTML were prescriptive of physical layout, the bug would be in the
browsers other than Lynx.  Paragraph 4.11.3 of the HTML 1 specification
says:

Typical Rendering:

 H1    Bold vary large font, centered.  One or two lines clear space between
                             ^^^^^^^^
       this and anything following.  If printed on paper start new page.

 H2    Bold large font, flush left against left margin, no indent.
       One or two clear lines above and below.

I seem to remember that the CSS1 specification uses this as the basis of
an example of a style sheet to produce the suggested default rendering.
HTML 4.0 avoids any physical formatting guidelines at all on Hn elements,
as best I can tell from a quick scan of a hardcopy version, probably
because it was the easiest way of resolving the conflict between Netscape
and Microsoft and the earlier specifications.

CSS = Cascading Style Sheets.
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