Proper client interpretation of <pre>blah</pre>

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 10:15:10 EST
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From: cheung@eplrx7.es.dupont.com (Bryan Cheung)
Subject: Proper client interpretation of <pre>blah</pre>

I have noticed some differences in the way that w3 clients interpret the
<pre>blah</pre> clause. It seems that some X,Mac-mosaic, and Cello
ALWAYS insert a newline after <pre>blah</pre>, whereas Lynx does not.
What is the proper behavior?

  I encounter the problem in the scenario described below. I welcome
any and all advice on better HTML techniques -- I am a beginner.

I am trying to set up a table of the form:

   Column1           Column2          Column3
   ===========================================
   Value11           Value12          Value13
   Value21           Value22          Value23
   Value31           Value32          Value33
   ...
   Valuen1           Valuen2          Valuen3
   ===========================================

Generated by

   Column1           Column2          Column3
   ===========================================
   <inc srv "/here/row1.html">
   <inc srv "/there/row2.html">
   ...
   <inc srv "/there/rown.html">
   ===========================================

Where each "rown.html" can be included in multiple tables, and looks like:

   <pre>Valuen1           Valuen2          Valuen3</pre>

and contains *NO* newlines.  Note that many of the ValuenX values may
be hypertext links.

In XMosaic, Mac-mosaic (NCSA), and Cello, the display resulting from
the above setup is:

   Column1           Column2          Column3
   ===========================================
   Value11           Value12          Value13

   Value21           Value22          Value23

   Value31           Value32          Value33

   ...

   Valuen1           Valuen2          Valuen3

   ===========================================

In Lynx I get:

   Column1           Column2          Column3
   ===========================================
   Value11           Value12          Value13
   Value21           Value22          Value23
   Value31 Value32 Value33                     <--strange collapsed white space
   Value41           Value42          Value43
   Value51           Value52          Value53
   ...
   Valuen1           Valuen2          Valuen3
   ===========================================

Any clues or help is greatly apreciated.


                              -- Bryan Cheung
                                 cheung@eplrx7.es.dupont.com