Just too many blank lines

[Weedpacket]

I've finally decided I might as well mention this... I'd been saving up my karma points for something seriously curly :p.

For browsing these forums I'm usually using Mozilla 1.x on a Windows box. When I do, stuff in [PHP] tags is double-spaced, quite a bit harder to read. I happened to stop by via IE at one point, and - nope, no double-spacing, so presumably it's unintentional (though what would be the intention?).

This only happens with [PHP], not [CODE], which remains single spaced.

Haven't seen it via a Linux machine, so can't give that comparison; from what I can make out by looking at a page in binary, however, each line ends with a carriage return character (0x0d) and a <br&nbsp;/> break, and Mozilla's going ahead and rendering both as linebreaks. (Just checked: in &#091;CODE] blocks, carriage return - linefeed pairs are being used and no <br&nbsp;/> tags.)

[jstarkey]

ok. I give. How are you looking at it in binary?

It's double spaced in Mozilla and there is a fix. I have to remember what it is. TBH, I haven't paid attention to the spacing.

[Weedpacket]

Simple (he says...) a quick-&-dirty PHP script ('cos I use PHP as a shell scripting language on my machine) to read in a suitable page and write it out to a file ( mode 'wb'); then look at the file with a hex editor (to be honest, I just called the written file "page.png" and tried opening it in Irfanview, 'cos it was closest to hand at the time. It complained it couldn't read the file, and I used its hex viewer to see why not 🙂).