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From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: HTML coding ( was Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN)
On 5/14/10 7:58 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire"<mcguire at neurotica.com>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:14 PM
> Subject: Re: HTML coding ( was Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN)
>> Having stuff enclosed with<HEAD> </HEAD> but followed by
unencapsulated
>> body text is kinda ugly, IMO. Know what I
mean?
>>
>
> 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..)
Oh, right. I didn't know that.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk