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Blinky the Shark's response:

> me@ wrote:
>> Whiskers wrote in
>> news: @ t:
>>
>>> On 2007-08-07, bealoid wrote:
>>>> »Q« wrote in
>>>> »news: @ :
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>
> Yeah, the *correct* one: /stuff/
>
> Not the link to the Proxomitron that I accidentally first posted. :)
>
>> 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
>
> Note to the Whiskery One: the

 element reproduces text exactly as

> it was written, including (at least in simple terms) white space.  As

> another example, If you look at my usenet bonehead page (no, not the

> Google Grouper page; the other bonehead page), you'll see that all of

> the entries are in 
 elements, and if someone wrote

> 

> help!!!!1!!!!!!!       I'm an idiot!!!!!

> 

> Those multiple spaces woudl be rendered.

> 

>  

> 

>  /comp/ 

> 

> In fact, the very first entry shows this quite well.



That has to be some of the funniest shite I've read in a long while.



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