CSS Indentation "Standardization"
Abhi and I were discussing this:
Quote: Indents. As a rule, anything that increases white space also enhances a document's appearance and readability. Indents add white space and give shape and definition to a paragraph.
It comes from this page: http://collaboratory.nunet.net/dsimpson/typography.html.
If you look at the layout section, it has the first paragraph not indented, and all paragraphs after that indented. Another page displays this method: http://css.nu/examples/indent.html.
My question is Why? Why is the first left alone and all successive paragraphs indented? This boggles my mind.
Colin Barnette posted this at 03:55 — 3rd July 2004.
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Ok, after further investigation, it seems that it is another american thing. American material in general is all indented, and the rest of the world predominately uses non-indented first paragraphs and indents the rest.
Busy posted this at 04:13 — 3rd July 2004.
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being different isn't a crime, just sometimes confusing and mind boggling
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