Re: <pre>

"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>

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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 94 11:36:37 EDT
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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Subject: Re: <pre> 
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In message <199410061400.KAA13006@eies.njit.edu>, James Whitescarver writes:
>It is not clear to me that <pre> should ignore CR.  I think this is a bug
>in the our browsers.  The intent of <pre> was that such things are NOT
>ignored. The specs may be wrong too. :)

This issue came up on the HTML Working group list.

The current practice[1] is that the LF character is what matters.

The spec will say that CRLF is the correct way to break a line,
but it will encourage browser implementors to accept LF alone
as a linebreak, and caution authors and editor implementors
that CR alone will _not_ work. (right, Mike?)

Dan

[1] http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML/html-archive.messages/432.html
    Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 14:45:14 EDT
    Message-id: <CMM.0.90.4.780259432.reed@hades.cshl.org>
    From: Corprew Reed <corp@cshl.org>
    Subject: Re: Character Data