Re: What's APPLET doing inside PRE?

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In article <199612301903.TAA07726@curia.ucc.ie>,
Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie> wrote:
>    Is there a particular reason that IMG is not permitted inside PRE,
>    but APPLET is?
> 
> Excellent question. I'm sure it's because one of the browsers allows
> it, so all commonsense is flung to the 4 winds.

My first thought as well, but they also handle IMG inside PRE fairly
well (see the KGV[0] for an example). I really doubt that any person
who likes to use applets will use preformatted text as well.

>    Ceterum censeo CLASS addendum esse.
> 
> We all wish for this, but I think only Microsoft is likely to
> implement it right now, and they don't seem to have kept their DTD up
> to date...

I forgot how to say "to HTML 3.2" in Latin. It's a real pain to
advocate both writing valid HTML (meaning 3.2) as well as using
stylesheets for presentation, when you can't use CLASSes or IDs.

Galactus
[0] http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Egerald/validate/

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Received on Tuesday, 31 December 1996 07:52:53 UTC