14 May
2010
14 May
'10
6:01 p.m.
On 5/14/10 7:58 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire"<mcguire at neurotica.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: HTML coding ( was Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN)
I guess. Noone (except maybe software) bothers encapsulating paragraphs (P
tag) anymore though, with the P tag only used at the start of paragraphs. Or
atleast in the code I have seen.
It's actually kinda the opposite of that. <P> effectively didn't
*have* a closing tag many years ago; nobody ever did it. Only with the
XHTML stuff is there more of an insistence in opens with matching closes.
(not to be contrary, but..)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
On 5/14/10 3:08 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire"<mcguire at neurotica.com>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: HTML coding ( was Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN)
>
>
>> On May 14, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
>>>>> Actually, what I meant (and didn't say) is that a "hello
world"
>>>>> program in
>>>>> HTML these days takes no code at all, other than the text
"hello
>>>>> world"!
>>>>> I just tested this on Firefox 2 before posting this reply. It seems
>>>>> that
>>>>> some (all?) *current-ish* (giving myself some room to move there!)
>>>>> browsers
>>>>> don't need the intro and outro HTML tags (e.g. HTML and BODY).
>>>>
>>>> I don't recall any web browser ever actually requiring that in
>>>> order to spit out text.
>>>
>>> So why do we have them?
>>
>> Well, BODY is needed to differentiate from HEAD, if HEAD is
>> present. HTML is simply used to tell the browser that this is HTML,
>> as compared to XML or something else. The browser will typically
>> recognize it as such (or default to handling it as such) in the
>> absence of the HTML tag.
>>
>
> Ahh, that makes sense, sort of. HEAD should have a matching closing tag
> though, which would still render the BODY tag useless. Unless the BODY
tag
was used
to set-up default page colour settings.
Well it's still useful from a cleanliness and symmetry perspective.
Having stuff enclosed with<HEAD> </HEAD> but followed by unencapsulated
body text is kinda ugly, IMO. Know what I mean?