[Bug 18107] pre is stylistic (typografic) rather than semantic. it always has been. The use-cases should be rewritten so it becomes semantic (What is semantically wrong with using code in a p instead of a pre?) In fact, personally I do not think pre has any semantic

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18107

Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |eoconnor@apple.com
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> 2012-08-23 21:26:27 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No change.
Rationale: The <pre> element has several use cases which are difficult
for Web authors to achieve by using other features. Also, the Web corpus
contains a tremendous amount of <pre> usage, so we can never remove it
from the platform.

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