On Tue, 3 May 2011, Roger Hågensen wrote: > > Is there a need for say a <pbr> ? (short for paragraph break) default > behavior being the same as two <br>.
Isn't that just two paragraphs separate from each other? <p> ... </p> <p> ... </p> > Then again getting folks to change would be hard, so maybe a <cp> and > </cp> would make more sense. (closed paragraph) How is that different from <p>? > Myself I always tend to use <br><br> for readability when I don't feel > like the text should be split into different paragraphs. And I use <p> > and </p> for it's intended purpose, to markup actual paragraphs. > > Now if <p> was turned into a synonym for <br><br> and </p> simply > ignored, I'd be happy to move to using say <cp> and </cp> for > paragraphs. I'm pretty sure that's a non-starter from a compatibility persepective. On Sat, 14 May 2011, yuhong wrote: > > FYI, the reason is that IE5 supported mixing foreign XML content into > HTML long before HTML5 added this support. It is used for VML for > example. Note that this support has been removed from IE10. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'