Really? I thought the concensus was to encapsulate paragraphs in <P>,
and that it *was* good SGML (and allowed things like <P ALIGN=CENTER>,
which we really REALLY want).
> TEXTAREA fields should always word wrap exactly as a word processor, and
> are aesthetically, and in human factors, exactly what a word processor
> user would expect.
What browser does this for you? None of the ones I've tested do, I don't
think....
> The nice thing about html and forms is that they DO conform to what most
> word processor users expect.
I wish.
> The semi-binary interpretation of <pre> is fine now that it is well-defined.
> It will continue to confuse new users of html who naturally assume that
> 'preformatted' actually means simply 'preformatted', but will always be
> essential to read the specifications carefully to use html correctly. It
> is a precise programming language not a set of intuitively grounded
> suggestions.
Which is a good way to intimidate content providers away from HTML.
Again, maybe I'm making a bigger deal out of this than I need to,
expecially when doing a s/CR/CRLF/g is so easy to fix this problem.
Brian