On 5/6/08, Aaron D. Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Stewart wrote: > > You mean between PREs. CODE is shorthand for monospace font, pre > > respects existing spacing and markup. > > > I think CODE means exactly what it says. "This is code." If the > user/browser wants to make that monospace, fine. However, since it > contains code, WordPress should treat it like it contains code.
Except that's not what the W3 standard says. CODE elements say nothing about formatting and the respecting thereof, they're simply "phrase" elements. It's semantic to label code with CODE, but it doesn't preserve formatting any more than wrapping an emphasized phrase in an EM element does.[1] PRE elements are specifically supposed to respect the whitespacing of the text contained within them.[2] I misspoke -- the default browser behavior is for CODE-wrapped phrases to be rendered in monospace font as an indicator of their semantics. Hope that helps. 1) http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/mod-text.html#edef_text_code 2) http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/mod-structural.html#edef_structural_pre -- -Doug _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
