- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:54:55 +0300
On May 29, 2007, at 23:39, gary turner wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> <snip> >> It seems to me that the safer way to show plain text in a browser >> content area is to use text/html and <plaintext>. :-/ > > My apologies if you're being facetious or if <plaintext> is to be > re-introduced with a /working/ end tag. But, the plaintext tag, as > from html 1 is particularly unusable. I was serious. If you want to display plain text in the browser content area, it seems that prepending "<plaintext>" and sending it as text/html is more likely not to invoke sniffing than sending it as text/plain. This use case doesn't require an end tag. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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