On Saturday 20 January 2007 01:08, Ian Hickson wrote: > > In HTML5, we're dropping that requirement, since everyone ignores it. > However, we will, as you point out, have to introduce a special behaviour > for a newline at the start of a <pre> element. IE actually does it for > more than just the <pre> element (e.g. it does it for <p>, though not > <span>) but compatibility with the Web only seems to require it for <pre> > since that's all that the other browsers do it for. > Would it be inconceivable to let <pre> parse like any other elements, and then somehow drop any initial newline during the rendering?
`Allan
