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Subject:Re: Best way to indent in HTML From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:31:47 -0500
> From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [mailto:jaed -at- JAEDWORKS -dot- COM]
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> The basic problem with invalid or weird HTML is that you
> never know what's gonna happen. The most popular current browsers render <blockquote> by
> indenting the contents on all four sides; but there's no law says that
> browsers will continue handling <blockquote> that way for all
> time. If some browser comes out tomorrow that renders block quotes in
> italics, or small lettering, or purple, you're at least mildly screwed.
> Likewise if someone's using a personal style sheet or individual prefs to render
> <blockquote> some other way that they find more suitable.
...
Exactly. That's what us HTML purists mean when we say that HTML isn't a page layout language. A <blockquote> doesn't mean "indent all four sides by this much" it means "this is a block of quoted text: display it as such".
It is a different way of thinking about authoring from what many of us are used to, a more content-oriented approach.
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