On 28.11.2003, at 20:11, Nik Clayton wrote:

> There seem to be spurious <br>s in much of the Web GUI.
>
> ...
>
> Before I go and clean these up, is there any particular reason for 
> them?

Yes. Don't waste your time "cleaning" those up. I decided to manually 
hard-wrap the text (mostly hints and field descriptions) to avoid 
problems with ugly wrapping and unwanted table cell width expansion, 
and also to take control of the minimal form of typography that HTML 
permits.

And besides, I happily admit to the world that the m0n0wall webGUI has 
been designed to look best with Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows. 
Yes, that's right. I figured that the largest part of the prospective 
m0n0wall users (and it was never designed for cracks/*nix users who 
would just as well be able to set up a similar system manually on their 
own) would probably use that browser. I still think it looks OK with 
other browsers like Mozilla or Apple's Safari - as long as the 
necessary fonts (Tahoma...) are installed.

Clean-room HTML (as in: works at/in/on all text 
sizes/resolutions/fonts/platforms/browsers/...) doesn't work in the 
real world... at least it always clashes with pixel-perfect looks - 
something I'm pretty fond of. :)

- Manuel