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- Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 03:31:33 +0000
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Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:
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--- Comment #11 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-05-08 03:31:31 UTC ---
Proposal: allow <xmp> as an element with the same semantics as <pre> but
keeping the special parsing rules in HTML.
Pros: Experienced authors who are writing specs, HTML tutorials, programming
language blogs, or other pages containing snippets of code that can be expected
to contain < and & characters get to save the time of escaping their <s and &s.
Cons: Complicates the language, introduces yet another polyglot difference, may
be mistreated as a security feature, a pain to use if you have to later add
markup inside the block (e.g. to highlight a section), doesn't support
characters outside the character encoding of the page (as it can't get
entities).
I agree with Henri that this is a tough call.
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