"Timwi" == Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> writes:
Anders Wegge Jakobsen wrote:
> "Timwi" == Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> writes:
>
>> No, not at all. Such br's often break floating images, especially
>> when there is more than one on a page.
> Why say break, when it's the intended purpose?
When I say "break" I mean it's *NOT* the
intended purpose. 99% of
all <br>s I have seen on en did *NOT* accomplish the intended
purpose and instead "broke" things.
Your point may be correct as far as en is concerned. Many other wikis
have so few contributors that there are simply not enough text in a
given article, as to take up the slack induced by pictures.
> I'm talking about pages like
> <http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonde_%28skak%29>, which would look
> quite broken if the text could not be aligned where it's supposed
> to be.
This is a good example of the rare page where the
<br> tags are
useful and used correctly.
Belive me or not, we have many similar pages on dawiki.
>> If you add a <br style="clear:
right;" />, you will cause not only
>> other images, but also text and headings to move below existing
>> right-floating images.
> Often, that's the point of doing so.
That's not what the examples I saw were trying to
accomplish (or when
they were, they were doing it in a place where it was inappropriate,
such as forcing the See Also section underneath a lengthy taxobox; why
do you want to do that?).
Typographic conventions perhaps? I'm just guessing here.
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