On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Ben Leslie wrote:
One of my "favorite" issues with win/DOS has always been its use of CR+LF combinations. Why? Because all browsers interpret the thing as a SPACE.
AFAIK this is an HTML thing, not a win/DOS thing. The HTML spec treats any whitespace as a space.
Well unix uses only cr by default, and browsers do not interpret that as a whitespace.
Which broswer do you use? I just test this by using the following HTML <html><body> <h1>This is a test</h1> <h1>This is a te st </h1> </body></html> (Typed in using `cat' on a dec machine). Now, if browsers did not interpret cr as whitespace it should, in theory display something like: This is a test This is a test However, in the browsers I tested it with (Netscape - Linux, Lynx - DEC), it is displayed as: This is a test This is a te st This seems to be show that browsers _do_ interpret CRs as whitespace (or have I misunderstood what you are saying?) Benno