Code icebergs - Hackdot

Re:Code icebergs by nitrogen on Sunday November 07, 2010 @04:19AM (#1879053)

The monospaced or proportional fonts aren't the issue; it's that HTML treats all sequences of whitespace within text as a single space. It's quite annoying to those of us who like our double-spaced sentences. When a word processor generates HTML, every double-spaced sentence ends with this:

  [space]&nbsp;

Or even this:

  [space]<span class="something-about-space">[space]</span>

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Re:Code icebergs by jerf on Sunday November 07, 2010 @08:44PM (#1881049)

HTML and proportional fonts are two separate issues. HTML ignores them, which is one problem; two spaces in a proportional font being less immediately obvious than on a typewriter is another problem. You can come up with some other issues too if you think about it. It all adds up to a dead tradition.

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