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I've noticed that Netscape Communicator 4.x ignores <br/> and haven't tried same with IE4.x as I've upgraded to IE5. What techniques are going to be developed to account for this backwards compatibility issue if one creates otherwise well-formed documents? Must we count on the DOM and script our way into redundancy again? Would 'inline redundancy' be a strategy as in the form of <br><br/> or would this break the current and future processors while addressing the foibles of the earlier releases? Lastly, I thought I read somewhere to use <br /> using white space and when I use this technique this seems to be recognized by Communicator 4.x *and* IE5 but I wonder again about generalized usage in this regard with respect to maintaining a well-formed document. If this white space technique for empty tags is to be the way it should be done why do I not see this technique used in the examples that are being published? I hope to remind those of you who have a grasp on usage that most of us are engaged in 'monkey see - monkey do'. ======================================= Clinton Gallagher NET cpio@m... URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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