On Tuesday 31 July 2007 16:03:54 Rob Church wrote:
You assume that wiki content is web-oriented, and while that's true, it's not the best attitude to have - wiki content does not have to be viewed on a screen at all, it could be printed into a book, or on t-shirts, or bits of toilet paper.
This is the *point* of semantics, as applied to information - "what I mean", not "what I look like".
Great! You gave us a perfect reason why my proposed - or = is much much better than <br style="clear:both;" />.
= means: make a full break considering all elements above.
On a web page it would be <br style="clear:both;" /> on a book it would be the page break tag of Docbook-XML (or another book format as long as you have the parser for it), on T-Shitrs maybe the "turn to backside tag" and on toilet paper... na you don't want to turn to the backside but maybe to the next sheet...
So my suggest is about maintaining semantics. <br style="clear:both;" /> is bad in wiki source code for your named reason of "what I look like" vs. "what I mean".
Cheers, Arnomane