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Comment by JoeAltmaier | Hacker News Reader

That's actually an argument for why it doesn't matter, so we can all continue to do as we please.

Is there a good reason the browser messes up my spacing? Certainly not for readability!

It's because spacing is used for both structure and presentation in HTML, so something like:

    <span>This is some text</span>
    <span>while this is some more text.</span>

shouldn't render the 4 indentation spaces that I used.. If it did we'd have to pack it all into one line. Can be adjusted appropriately with CSS though, if people here were obsessive about the presentation of their spacing.

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