Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do we want to honor whitespaces in table cells or not?
>>
>> The main advantage of trimming them is to get aligned cell symbols.
>>
>> See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0#section-Creole1.0-Tables
>>
>> Right now we're honoring whitespaces (they are significant).
>>
>> If we want to be consistent with normal wiki text we should honor them
>> since we're honoring spaces in wiki text. However we just need to
>> agree that it won't be possible to get nicely aligned cell delimiters
>> then.
>>
>> WDYT?
> 
> One consideration. Right now you have to write the following:
> 
> |cell1|cell2|cell3
> 
> this is not very readable IMO compared to:
> 
> | cell1 | cell2 | cell3
> 
> However right now since whitspaces are honored if you write the latter  
> you'll get:
> 
> <td>&nbsp;cell1&nbsp;</td> in XHTML.

IMHO we should not use &nbsp;s anywhere. +1 for letting spaces be 
spaces, and HTML can take care of them.

If users want to preserve space formatting, they can use a style 
declaration to keep whitespace displayed.

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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