- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:20:48 +0200
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Orion Adrian wrote: >Is there any reason <code> doesn't assume preformatting? I've never >seen code that doesn't require preformatting to be readable. > > It is used inline code and not for code examples as a whole. I have never had the need to preserve spaces, and I use <code> *a lot*. Preserving spaces and newlines is used for the purpose of indenting and formatting code to be more readable, and those arguments do not apply to inline content. Preformatting on <code> would actually be very bothersome (it already is in <pre>) because I can’t let my XML editor automatically format preformatted items. It is relatively easy to skip pre blocks, but not being able to format entire paragraphs for fear it e.g. inserts line breaks inside <code> elements... No please :). By the way, it is only a default - you can always change the behavior with CSS, if you so desire. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
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