jhrothjr wrote:
> Interesting. It definitely seems to be Yahoo
> removing leading spaces. It removed them on
> both test posts, but now they're back when
> I'm in the reply frame.
Actually, it's not that simple. :)
Multiple spaces are redundant in HTML; consecutive whitespace is simply
treated as a single whitespace character. Thus, when this little fellow:
<!-- w2.grp.scd.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Tue Dec 28 14:47:59 PST 2004 -->
comes into play, it strips the whitespace out.
In the reply frame, you're inside a textarea. Whitespace in a textarea is
not redundant, so the compressor isn't trimming it.
Note that even if the compressor wasn't trimming the whitespace away, it
still wouldn't render correctly. For that to happen, Yahoo would have to
decide to treat consecutive whitespaces as special, and replace them with
entities. (It couldn't treat every space as special, or the
formatting wouldn't work very well for long lines of text)
Robert.
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