@Designer:
<p> separates text into individual blocks. It is used for the same
reason as we use spaces, commas, full-stops (periods), page breaks... A
paragraph should be self-contained in meaning. If you argue that this is
presentational, there's not much stopping you from making the leap to
the fact that text itself is purely a collection of signs which only
mean anything once interpreted on some level. I hope we can leave it at
this without getting into perceptive psychology and the ultimate
meaninglessness of life itself.
@Rimantas:
It only takes imagining any occurrence of a <hr> to make clear that your
example obviously isn't enough. Of course we don't want one of these
between all <div>s or <p>s. No-one has ever used it like this. It is
only because it is used as a distinct element that anyone acknowledges
its value. Horizontal rules do not necessarily divide chapters - and
neither do they divide all paragraphs in any instance I've seen.
You seem to be of the camp which maintains that use of the horizontal
rule as a visual device is never justified. I disagree.
*****
If people were to say there should be such a thing as
p.breakFlow:after{display:block;height:1px;color:#000000;margin:2em 0 0
2em} on the basis that there should not be such an 'object' in the
markup, I might be tempted to get into a discussion about semiotics. But
saying that a staple of human literary culture over the past 500 years
has been made obsolete by Google doesn't really merit acknowledgment in
my eyes.
Regards,
Barney
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