It may not be what you expect, but perhaps it simplifies things in other areas *shrug*. You can always use a non-breaking space (the HTML Swiss Army Chainsaw(tm)). Either way, I guess the important thing is to realise how much the existing browers have molly-coddled us in handling non-standard behaviour. A browser like mozilla will give you standard behaviour if you say that you are using standard HTML.
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It may not be what you expect, but perhaps it simplifies things in other areas *shrug*. You can always use a non-breaking space (the HTML Swiss Army Chainsaw(tm)). Either way, I guess the important thing is to realise how much the existing browers have molly-coddled us in handling non-standard behaviour. A browser like mozilla will give you standard behaviour if you say that you are using standard HTML.