Barney Carroll wrote:
'The point'. Very interesting notion.
Presumably, sticking any kind of extra markup in is going to cause you
to have to put in as much attention, effort and typing (at least) as
putting in the space manually, and css can't yet select sub-element
'objects'. So seeing as you need extra markup anyway, you are in a
sense being just as much, if not more, of a burden with content
(bizarre spans all over the place or one more space?).
The advantage of javascript is that the spaces can be procedurally
generated, which removes the odious task of parsing every sentence in
this new class, or telling all your writers to manually double-space.
Regards,
Barney
Christian Montoya wrote:
As for Javascript, the whole point of Javascript solutions is to
"fake" a technique by adding in the same amount of markup as you would
in the plain HTML case, but simply hiding that markup from
"view-source." It's still in the DOM and you can see it with
"view-generated-source," so there's no reason why a Javascript
alternative to an HTML/CSS technique is going to be any lighter.
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Agreed, naturally. But can you point to an actual example of how to do
this? Apart from the (complex) problems of avoiding Mr. Mrs. etc, I
often use PHP and this is riddled with 'periods' where I don't want
spaces. It seems to me to be a complex issue to select only ". " and
replace with ". " ? But then, you probably know something I don't!
Horrible though the span thing is, it does at least leave control of the
layout to the CSS. If you subsequently want to eliminate the spacing,
you just change the {padding-right : 0.5 em} to {padding : 0} and all
the spaces on the site go back to normal. . .
--
Best Regards,
Bob McClelland
Cornwall (UK)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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