Line numbered code

I have had various communications with others about:

1	Poor or buggy user controlled soft wrapping within browsers. This would
be useful for sites such as -
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?warnings=yes&input=yes&url=http://informatics.open.ac.uk/brow/

2	The lack of HTML/CSS support for the above type of line numbered
code/source - I understand that Liam is thinking of using 'ol' combined
with 'pre-wrap' as soon as CSS3 is available.

Is it too late to consider line numbered code as a special case for CSS3?
ie a line number followed by space preserved code (as in pre) but with
various wrapping options and with all wrapped lines indented (as in ol). I
would also like to omit the dot after the line numbers but others may not
agree with this.

Neville Hillyer
Telematics Webmaster
Open University

http://informatics.open.ac.uk/