Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-12 Thread Jules Bean
--On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 2:47 am -0300 Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's absolutelly no reason for doing so. You aren't following the stamdard more closely with that. Oh yes, there is a reason. Using omittags to the fullest extent, one may indeed get rid of a lot of markup,

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-12 Thread Jules Bean
--On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 10:40 am +0200 Dirk Niemeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should also consider using height=xxx and width=xxx for the IMG tag as this makes rendering easier for the browsers. I always sit in front of an empty display for a while and the browser tells me it is loading

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
The specific problem with the p tags is that many people misunderstand them, and many browsers appear to interpret p tags the way that people expect them to work (i.e. put some space here) rather than the way they should work. It's amazing to see the Big Companies, with their Big Bucks,

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-11 Thread Darren Benham
On 11-Oct-98 Jules Bean wrote: --On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 10:32 pm +0200 Philipp Frauenfelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a niggle, but we're professionals here. That's not the correct use of the p tag. The p tag is a container for a paragraph, as in pThis is a short paragraph/p.

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-11 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I always thought that P stand-alone was how the paragraph tag was orginially defined and therefore would be historicly correct... Not only historicaly but also by definition. Here is a quotation from ---snip 9.3.1 Paragraphs: the P

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-11 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 6:59 pm +0200 Jacob Sparre Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philipp: | Summary: no end tag required but discouraged for additional | white space (empty paragraph). The end tag is _not_ discouraged. It is not _necessary_. The extra space you get in Netscape when

RE: layout of web pages

1998-10-10 Thread Darren Benham
On 10-Oct-98 Philipp Frauenfelder wrote: Secondly, I've encountered already two pages which don't have a real good layout: Go ahead and make those changes if they're not already done. = * http://benham.net/index.html