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@@ -9,3 +9,23 @@ almost of my CSS foo again ;-) it seems.) --[[tschwinge]]
 >
 > I've edited the URL you provided to demonstrate this -- hope you don't mind! I've also added an inline, right-aligned image to this page.[[!tag done]]
 > -- [[Jon]]
+
+> Contrary to all of the above, html does not care about P tags when
+> floating an image to the left or right via align. Proof:
+> <http://kitenet.net/~joey/pics/toomanypicturesofjoey/>, where the image
+> is in its own paragraph but still floats. Also, I re-modified a local
+> copy of the hurd page to enclose the image in a P, and it still floats.
+> 
+> Tested with Chromium and Firefox. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Uh, sorry for not confirming what I supposed to be with looking into
+>> the relevant standard.  It just seemed too obvious to me that the
+>> closure of `<p>...</p>` would confine whatever embedded stuff may be
+>> doing.  (Meaning, I didn't expect that the *img*'s alignment would
+>> propagate to the *p*'s and would thus be visible from the outside.)
+>> 
+>> I confirm (Firefox, Ubuntu jaunty) that your picture page is being
+>> shown correctly -- thus I suppose that there's a buglet in our CSS
+>> scripts again...
+>> 
+>> --[[tschwinge]]