[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42340: Spurious Insertion of <p>aragraph Tags
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#42340: Spurious Insertion of <p>aragraph Tags
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Reporter: oeconomist | Owner:
Type: defect (bug) | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Formatting | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Focuses:
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Comment (by oeconomist):
The point that most users don't want to be bothered with mark-up was
already stipulated.
Entering “<br /><br />” is simply not the same act as that of twice
hitting the Enter key. Whoever decided that “<br /><br />” were usually
intended to start a new paragraph was guessing, and guessing strangely; it
remains a conjecture and an odd one that many users have already done just
this. “<p>” has been part of the HTML specification since the first RFC
(albeit that Berners-Lee was incoherent about what it meant, which
incoherence can cause “<p>” to need clean-up); whereas “<br>” was
introduced later.
I'd like to see someone point to a case, anywhere, of a preëxisting 'blog
entry that will actually render badly as a result of this pseudo-
correction being ended. If such cases exist at all, then they will be
very rare, and more rare than cases of style attributes being ignored
because new blocks were spuriously created.
This bug should not be cemented as a feature.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42340#comment:8>
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