Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/03/07 03:27

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> What does this have to do with converting newline characters to <br>?
>> Newline characters will affect the generated html, <br> won't.
>
> Nothing. That's not what this thread was about. The original poster
> opined that the ability to print \n newlines was useless. I disagreed.

Well, I can agree with him that with html, \n newlines are useless.

But you cut off the more important part of my post. Just to remind you,
it was:

<quote>
But if you really want to bloat your html with lots of extra white
space, increasing the amount of bandwidth required to load your pages
and slow down your customers, by all means, do it.

Now I'm not suggesting you have no formatting - but you can overdo it,
also.
</quote>


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