- From: James R Grinter <jrg@acm.org>
- Date: 9 Jan 1998 17:40:32 -0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri 9 Jan, 1998, Chris Maden <crism@ora.com> wrote: >[Jamie Gerdes] >> Can anyone please explain to me WHY the <plaintext> tag has been >> forgotten?!?! > >Because its intended behavior can not be made legal. Plaintext (and >xmp and listing) intend to allow *any* markup except their own end-tag >as data. and another great reason for browsers to avoid it - all the submission forms out there that accept HTML markup, yet don't remove PLAINTEXT tags... James.
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