"Timwi" == Timwi timwi@gmx.net writes:
Anders Wegge Jakobsen wrote:
"Timwi" == Timwi timwi@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.