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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> nnslahsdot turn <br><br> into <p>, but that doesn't work with the CR
> inbetween.  The following fix will allow any whitespace between the <br>'s.

nnslashdot now translates all the <br>'s into <p>'s.  I think that
makes Slashdot vaguely more readable, but there are some places that
<br> is actually what people were aiming for.  It's not very common,
though.

The difference between many web pages and news articles is that web
pages often look like:

-------
This is a paragraph that goes like this
and ends here.
And a new paragraph starts here and continues
until it ends.
-------

While in news that would be:

-------
This is a paragraph that goes like this
and ends here.

And a new paragraph starts here and continues
until it ends.
-------

And webby people achieve the former by ending paragraphs with <br>.
A division between representation and presentation?  What's that,
then? 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen