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RE: spacing -   versus clear images

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Mar 7, 2006 11:10AM



> >
> > The better question is: What valid reason is there to NOT author to
> > standards?
> > There isn't one good reason to purposely avoid a
> standards-compliant
> > alternative.
>
> Maybe it is a better question, but I'd like the answer to my question.
> For your question, as I mentioned in my response to Darryl,
> the likely answer is incomplete user agent support. If UA's
> support a non-valid technique and don't support a valid
> technique, you don't have a lot of choice if you need a
> specific result.
>

You state that your response would be "the likely answer is incomplete user
agent support". I'd be willing to bet that there are more UAs out there
that support CSS's margin and padding properties than there are the <spacer>
tag.

Karl L. Groves
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