There is effectively no semantic difference. To stop the spread of grey goo on the net, the only semantics we shoud be worried about are those which are picked up by search engines, and a <span class="sentence"> means equally as little as to these. It is also of little consequence to user agents if implemented correctly.
When visually examined by another human, most likley for site maintenance purposes, either technique will be able to convey the meaning. If you do have to use double space, I would suggest use the no breaks as it cuts down on page length and embeded tags
- Rob
http://ele.vation.co.uk
On 03/11/06, Barney Carroll <
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Which is semantically worse, and why?
1. Just manually putting the extra space in the markup.
2. Manually putting an extra inline element around the full stop and
styling said element to create a presentational space.
To me, they seem just as bad as each other - in the first instance
because there is no meaning or purpose behind a genuine double space,
and the desire is purely presentational; but in the second there is also
semantically unjustifiable extra markup (more of it by volume - but at
least it doesn't impinge upon real content) and requires even more
stupid hard work in going about manually or dynamically editing the
content to insert these tags...
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