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Comment by evv | Hacker News Reader

I love how every anchor has a line break. I wonder what browser bug forced them to do that...

Looks like standard 80-character wrapping to me. I don't see linebreaks on this file, for instance: view-source:http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html

There are no <BR> tags in the source, and <DT> is not a line break.

I think he means breaks in the actual source itself? I.e., not occurrences of “<BR>” but occurrences of “\n” ?

Ah.

I would equate that to being the developer's style preference.

I think it's more to do with this sort of thing:

    <A
    NAME=24 HREF="Summary.html">executive
    summary</A> of the project, <A

Looks to me like an attempt at organizing the markup to make it easier to read and edit the source text.