--- "Greg A. Woods" <woods@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not only do tools not always follow these rules,
> you can't even always treat
> > HTML like that. Besides making a huge file, it
> messes up the rendering of
> > tables with sliced-up images.
>
> I'm not talking about placing blank lines and/or
> comments in places
> where they would be considered part of the data.
> There are plenty of
> places to do so without affecting the interpretation
> of the data.
In theory, this is easy to do, but in practice I have
seen browsers act differently due to whitespace that
really shouldn't affect the rendering. IIRC,
"<table><tr>" worked differently from "<table>\n<tr>"
on at least one browser.
Noel
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