White space handling

joe@athena.mit.edu
Mon, 16 Aug 93 14:21:35 -0400


At NCSA there is HTML written like this

<DD>
New <I>Internet Talk Radio</I> programs being served from the
NCSA Web server include <A
HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html#kille">Steve
Kille on OSI and ISODE</A> and <A
HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html#trumka">United
Mine Workers President R. Trumka on labor in the 1990s</A>.

Xmosaic ignores the spaces at the beginning of the like. libwww 2.0 (and hence
tkWWW and the line mode browser) do not and you get formating like.....

A new mailbox to HTML converter is available here[4];
it was written by Tom Georges[5] at Harris.
For more information, see here[6]; for an example
of a mailbox converted to HTML with this program
see here[7].

With huge spaces everywhere.....

Which is the "correct" way of handling white space.