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Whiskers wrote in
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> On 2007-08-07, bealoid wrote:
>> »Q« wrote in
>> »news: @ :
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>>> In ,
>>> "-Lost" wrote:
>>>
>>>>I realize this is rather vague... actually just
>>>>pointless. But I find it odd that I see so many threads
>>>>where the first post is "Re:". For example, Charles
>>>>Lasitter's thread "Win32 Wanted: Best open source news /
>>>>mail client."
>>>
>>> When a Google Grouper replies to a post, Google collapses
>>> multiple whitespaces
>>
>> Wait - is it Google, or is it any web browser? Isn't
>> multiple whitespace on a webpage usually striiped by all
>> browsers?
>
> I wouldn't have thought any browser would automatically
> strip any content from a web page - apart from stuff that
> it can't display, or stuff which the user has deliberately
> configured to be blocked. A text space is just another
> text character.
>

Browser does not strip the contents (whitespaces). It just
does not display all "characters" - see the Shark's example.

Google is complicating (f*g up) the life. Search on MID is
send back with tags PRE /PRE around the message. That means
the browser will display all "extra" whitespaces, .,
Wanted: Best open

In order to reply, one has to click (Msg. from discussion or
View parsed). What goo sends to your browser has no PRE tags
and no "extra" whitespaces. Browser displays
Wanted: Best open

But they (goo) keep the "extras" in msg. body, .,
"Data interchange. Imports"
by replacing "extra" spaces by " "'s.

Oh well...

J
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