[Zope] cr/lf causing spaces

Nils Jeppe nils@jeppe.de
Sun, 9 Jul 2000 03:22:14 +0200 (CEST)


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.

> > Or is there already a way to avoid this?
> I ran into the same problem (using Linux), and there isn't really anyway to
> get around it, apart from having un-nicely formatted DTML source.

Maybe a problem with the way the textarea editor netscape etc work.



Nils