Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: RFC: verse tag markup and IE

[Frederik Fouvry]

,-- On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:29:22 -0500, Vadim Nasardinov wrote:
| 

[...]

| If the intention is to provide two distinct output markups -- one for
| CSS-enabled and another one for disabled browsers -- then a better
| abstraction would be to give users a single switch that does just
| that.  Toggle it to "css-on" or "css-off" depending on your target
| audience.

Ideally, an (x)html page should be marked up so that it is equally
usable on non-CSS-capable browsers without any changes (such as lynx).
That may require some fiddling though, and many things cannot be done
as elegantly.

[...]

| The following works regardless of CSS:
| 
|  | <p>
|  | `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<br/>
|  |   Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:<br/>
|  | All mimsy were the borogoves,<br/>
|  |   And the mome raths outgrabe<br/>
|  | </p>
| 
| Michael says this is not valid XHTML though.  Ok.

This _is_ valid XHTML, but some browsers may not display it correctly.
<br /> is just as correct, and keeps more browsers happy.

[...]

|  | <blockquote class="verse">
|  | <p>`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves</p>
|  | <p>  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:</p>
|  | <p>All mimsy were the borogoves,</p>
|  | <p>And the mome raths outgrabe</p>
|  | </blockquote>

IMO, this should be avoided: it's too hacky.

Frederik