Re: <pre>
Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
06 Oct 1994 16:45:08 +0100 (BST)
> 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?)
This sounds correct, but does this imply that incautious Mac users who
make files containing plain ASCII text for PRE will have to insert LFs?
///Peter