Quote:Sounds pretty dumb to me, requiring a close for paragraphs when 99 times out of 100 it's just going to be immediately followed by an open-para tag. Sounds like someone who doesn't code wrote up the standard. Also sounds like I'm not going to bother with HTML4 if I don't have to.
that's a requirment of the HTML 4.0 standard, i.e. everything must have a close tag. bug knows why its needed on a line break or horizontal line...
Quote:Sure doesn't sound very efficient - I wonder why someone thought setting the font tags over and over with every paragraph was more efficient than setting it once and not messing with it again unless or until something changes. Like HTML4, that sort of wasted space doesn't make me want to do anything with CSS unless absolutely required.
That's where Cascading StyleSheets become your friend: define once, use many.
Quote:I have a couple very serviceable doorstops, I don't need to spend $50 for a hardcover one ^_^
Unless you want one of those lethal hardcover doorstops full of theory which puts you to sleep, which Que (and Tom Clancy - in his case it's just pages of extranious text.
As for Mr Clancy, go give David Weber a read sometime. Talk about extraneous text padding out the novel... (btw - you can buy an e-book version of the pre-edit "advance reader copy" of the next Honor Harrington novel on Baen's website)
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