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[whatwg] Listing element

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:57:42 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0804052157250.12937@hixie.dreamhostps.com>
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Christoph P?per wrote:
>
> The |listing| element is currently not defined in HTML5, but its parsing 
> is said to be the same as for |pre|. Will |listing| be included some day 
> or will it be left out, because |code| nested in |pre| provides the same 
> semantics already?

I have no plans for adding <listing> to the language at this time. It is 
supported merely for legacy reasons.

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