- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 21:11:04 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> The only way <pre> could make the <plaintext> tag obsolete is if it
> provided all the functionality of the <plaintext> tag. But it doesn't!
> <Plaintext> printed all the html code to the screen. The <pre> tag
> reads the HTML code and does the necessary formatting.
Sorry to druge this up. I've been reading through the archives.
Wouldn't the "correct" way to handle this be:
<PRE>
<![CDATA[ << Your favourate HTML text goes here, just be careful when
using two ]'s followed by an >. >> ]]>
</PRE>
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Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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