Simon Fraser wrote:
>
> Don't think that we didn't consider options like this in the early
> days. We would have loved to have used this solution from the
> beginning, but it suffers from the problem that CSS-impaired user
> agents will still display the paragraphs with space between them. And
> despite other protestations on this thread that HTML is never supposed
> to specify the exact details of layout, we thought it an important
> issue that the composer of a message would see no space between
> paragraphs, but the receiver would. The addition of inter-paragraph
> space could alter the meaning of the message in ways that we can and
> cannot anticipate.
So, what are the ways you /can/ anticipate? I'm curious to know.
It seems odd that the addition inter-paragraph spacing is such a
big deal when most users already ignore the worse and more
widespread problem of mis-wrapped quoted text.
> In addition, consider the (not insubstantial) set of people who insist
> on writing HTML emails as if they were plain text, by hitting return at
> the end of each line. On a non-CSS-savvy user reading agent, those
> emails would all look double spaced. Bingo, we've just made that person
> look like a real luser.
I think Charles McCathieNevile answered to this well enough.
