Naslov
An Accidental Imperative: The Menacing Nothing of the non-breaking space

Autori
Willems, Brian Daniel

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
From A to -A-: Keywords in Markup

Urednik/ci
Dilger, Bradley ; Rice, Jeff

Izdavač
University of Minnesota Press

Grad
Minneapolis (MN) : London

Godina
2010

Raspon stranica
81-97

ISBN
978-0-8166-6609-6

Ključne riječi
non-breaking space, html, William Gibson, Werner Hamacher

Sažetak
Nbsp is an HTML entity used to create a nonbreaking space. nbsp is a response to the inability of early HTML to match the layout demands users expected from word processing and related software. Indention, the creation of extra space between words, and the design of tables with empty cells were all applications of nbsp. The use of nbsp offered an alternative to the single-pixel GIF file many Web writers used in order to artificially create extra space. However, improvements to HTML and the addition of Cascading Style Sheet selectors that permit alignment and positioning have made most of these uses irrelevant. Today, indenting and spatial control within sentences is far more fine grained. All in all, although nbsp is a typographic carryover, its continued use addresses the difficulties Web writers still face in recreating the spacing found in print documents.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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