|  | Posted by Ben C on 05/30/07 07:30 
On 2007-05-29, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:> In article <f3gkoj$r0a$00$1@news.t-online.com>,
 >  Knut Krueger <knut.krueger@usa.com> wrote:
 >
 >> dorayme schrieb:
 >> > In article <hIH6i.170761$EZ5.107427@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
 >> >  "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
 >> >
 >> >> Browsers often interpret a lone <br> as a request for empty line, but
 >> >> don't rely on such (mis)behavior.
 >> >
 >> > On all my Mac browsers I don't get an _empty_ line.
 >> >
 >> That's a problem - verifying the pages is very difficult.
 >> Firefox f.e is different on Mac and Windows and maybe different on
 >> Linux. Seems that there is a need for at least three systems to test all
 >> possible bugs and variations of the pages ...
 >>
 >
 > Is FF different on Windows cf to Mac? I have so far been
 > supposing not, thinking that I would have heard by now surely?
 
 I doubt it, but what did you mean by a "[non-]_empty_" line? A line
 containing nothing but one line-height's worth of space is what a lone
 <br> gives me on my Linux version of FF.
 
 e.g.
 
 <style type="text/css">
 div { font-size: xx-large; background-color: pink }
 </style>
 ...
 <body>
 <div>
 <br>
 </div>
 </body>
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