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That is also what I meant, and what the CMS discourages. See double spacing at the end of sentences. While it does come down to personal preference, if there is any standard web convention it is toward single spacing.
One suspects this is mainly because all extra whitespace is simply ignored in HTML...
So you use - unless your silly little editor won't let you.
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  .
Not if you only use it once. The second of the two spaces should be normal. I agree that   is better, however.
About time someone said it
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.