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in thread Add < /br> to Approved tags?

Also, one thing that no one seems to have mentioned at all in this thread yet, is: why should one use the br element at all, be it in HTML or XHTML or whatever?

Postal addresses.

At least, that was the justification for including it in HTML+ (aka HTML2).

Personally, I would've preferred that <address> have been made line return preserving, similar to <pre>, and we never would've run into this issue.

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Re^6: Add < /br> to Approved tags?
by blazar (Canon) on Jun 20, 2007 at 18:35 UTC
    Postal addresses.

    Well, I suppose that in principle there are many other reasons for wanting such a beast: also, *ML languages are much more about fancy formatting stuff on a computer screen than about high quality typography than those others I mentioned - and even those let you conjure up ad hoc stuff of all kinds if you really want to.

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