AllanCrossman comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: AllanCrossman 03 September 2009 03:34:13PM 0 points [-]

One suspects this is mainly because all extra whitespace is simply ignored in HTML...

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 10:54:05PM 0 points [-]

So you use   - unless your silly little editor won't let you.

Comment author: dfranke 04 September 2009 01:06:58AM 13 points [-]

  is non-breaking. It'll prevent the browser from breaking the line at what ought to be a good place to break it. If you want to force a wider space after a period than the renderer's default, then use  .

Comment author: TobyBartels 27 September 2011 08:16:45PM 0 points [-]

  is non-breaking. It'll prevent the browser from breaking the line at what ought to be a good place to break it.

Not if you only use it once. The second of the two spaces should be normal. I agree that   is better, however.

Comment author: thomblake 04 September 2009 01:22:05PM 0 points [-]

About time someone said it

Comment author: taw 04 September 2009 03:07:45AM 0 points [-]

It sounds like one of those small quirks that might or might not have some value, but it's probably too small to bother fighting over it. All geeks have a few of those.