On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Jayachandran Kandasamy wrote: > Hi Dwaal, > > Please dont practice to use BR tags for line breaks..
Why not? That's what they're for. > it is not standard web development The W3C says otherwise. > and lot of compatibility issues will occur across browsers and > internet devices :) :) ??? Can you be more specific? Of course one shouldn't use them in continuous blocks of text (the browser will take care of it), but where a line break is needed they are fine. > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Frances de Waal <dw...@mac.com> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > May I ask your opinion about some semantic/HTML basics? > > > > In case of a poem, if I place every verse in a paragraph, what do I do with > > each line of text in the verse? Is this one of the very few occasions to use > > breaks? A verse doesn't seem a list to me... or is it? I like your opinion. > > > > In the very few tutorials I have seen about how to markup a form > > semantically, both were using a list in the form. To me that seems totally > > unneccessary plus too much markup. Does anyone know what can be the reason > > of doing it that way? > > > > InContextEditing, the online CMS from Adobe, needs a extra div for every > > editable region. This makes me avoiding the tool. Some keep saying that > > extra divs don't make any difference to a page at all. I agree they have no > > meaning semantically, but they do create extra code which is not neccessary > > for the content. But then again, we don't talk about 100 divs here. So, > > besides of best practice, is there any place where the extra divs may have > > bad influence? > > > > Frances de Waal > > www.waalweb.nl > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > > ******************************************************************* > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
