On 3/31/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 10:59 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> [...]
> > 1) Is there a valid use case out there for the default 'leave 1 space'
> > behaviour that I am missing?
>
> Readability of the generated source is not to be sneezed at. Using the
> spaceless tag, you can have a nicely laid out template source with
> newlines in appropriate places, etc, and still have a nice compact (not
> spread over all creation) readable generated HTML. So I think the answer
> to this question is "yes".
Fair point, although I would argue that human readability of HTML
delivered to the browser is a pretty low priority. I do have a
specific counter-example where 0-spaces is significant. This HTML:
<ul>
<li>foo</li>
<li>bar</li>
</ul>
is just as (if not more readable) than:
<ul> <li>foo</li> <li>bar</li> </ul>
but will render on Firefox exactly the same, but:
<ul><li>foo</li><li>bar</li></ul>
while slightly less readable, will render differently if the li's have
css display:inline (as you would to display a list of menu items. The
existence of a space (regardless of the number) changes the
interpretation of layout. This may be a browser quirk, but it's a real
one that people have to deal with.
> > 3) Whatever the default value is, is there a need for configurability
> > of the number of spaces provided by this tag?
Ok - initial opinion appears to be anti configurability and anti
changing the default. Another option is to introduce a different tag
for the 0-spaces case. Opinions? Suggestions for names? Spaceless is
the obvious choice, but that name is taken :-)
Yours,
Russ Magee %-)
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