RE: Space Before and After?

["David Chinell" <dchinell -at- msn -dot- com>]

One should always use space before and rarely use
space after. Why? When you set space before, you
always know what element is to follow the space,
so you know how much space is appropriate. When
you set space after, you never know for sure what
element will follow that space, so you can't
exercise good design judgment about how much space
to use.

This is a fallacious argument that I use to baffle
my co-workers. It's just not true, but it's all I
could come up with to justify my mysterious,
innate desire to design with space before.

Bear


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