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--KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:30:17PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > >You'd see it all. Go on, try it. HTML is less hateful than you=20 > >think. In this case. >=20 > 1. If HTML treats <pre> THAT specially, it's more hateful than I think. No, <pre> is not special. < in HTML only defines markup if it's followed by !, by something that can be a NAME, or followed by / followed by a NAME. And that's actually an SGML feature - not something special for HTML. Any browser that doesn't display 'a < b && c > d' is broken. And while many browsers used to be broken, in 10 years of struggling, they managed to fix that. Unlike the naive HTML parsing of gazillions of people. > 2. I've already been burned by that exact example in existing=20 > html-enhanced web markup. I don't actually care if the browser or the=20 > server fucked it up. Browsers suck. I've yet to find a main-stream browser that can actually parse HTML2. Abigail --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDTgg4BOh7Ggo6rasRArP2AJ9cAu7LvuJiFycxDZGlvy+eAgM47wCcDzl1 CLnWcKOE6M3mi1LprPAeTok= =DSI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP--There's stuff above here
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