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Re:Space After Periods (1993) by cantSpellSober on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:01PM (#36683849)
> the developer of the Python programming language wanted web browsers to collapse multiple spaces to a single space

Those would be trailing spaces, not the whitespace Python considers significant (indentation).

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Re:Space After Periods (1993) by lolinder on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:14PM (#36684045)
Indentation was very much included in the discussion, but you have to go back to the q2 page:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/index.h...

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Re:Space After Periods (1993) by cantSpellSober on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:34PM (#36684393)
I don't see a mention of indentation there. Just:

> I would like to specify that multiple spaces be interpreted as such

The response is only

> Isn't it a violation of the SGML philosophy

This seems more relevant:

> spaces and tabs at the starts of lines are ignored, and extra space after punctuation is handled separately

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0470.ht...

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