- From: Jamie Gerdes <jgerdes@prismrsc.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 09:25:42 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
I've read a few websites that said the <plaintext> tag has become obsolete now that we have the <pre> tag. And that it is no longer supported. Hmph! 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. Now there seems to be no way to print out html code with converting all the < and > characters to their ascii equivalent (< >). This isn't always possible when creating dynamic pages. (Especially when using the STDOUT routine in PERL...but that's a whole other mailing list..) Can anyone please explain to me WHY the <plaintext> tag has been forgotten?!?! .jamie gerdes jgerdes@prismrsc.com (a concerned netizen)
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