Re: <pre>

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@hal.com)
Thu, 06 Oct 1994 17:08:39 -0500

In message <199410061545.QAA29423@curia.ucc.ie>, Peter Flynn writes:
>>
>> 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?

The way I understand it, this is the way it works today (see the
results of Corprew Reed's testing[1]). I see no reason to change it.

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