Re: Proportional fonts

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 20:52:41 (-0400), Reimer Behrends wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Proportional fonts
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:38:43PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm not an HTML expert, but:
> > 
> > "<br/>" is an invalid tag.  It should indeed be just "<br>".
> 
> <br /> is a perfectly valid tag in XHTML.

I don't have any XHTML browser.  :-)

> My understanding is that it
> is done this way so that you can switch the doctype to be XHTML
> without anything breaking.  The downside is that older browsers don't
> like it.

Usually When I publish information via HTTP I want it to reach the
widest possible audience and that means using the lowest common
denominator of HTML syntax to mark it up.

Personally I don't really see any need for anything beyond HTML-1.0 for
something like the lout web pages....

Accessability should be the rule, not the exception.

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