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Bug 18107 - pre is stylistic (typografic) rather than semantic. it always has been. The use-cases should be rewritten so it becomes semantic (What is semantically wrong with using code in a p instead of a pre?) In fact, personally I do not think pre has any semantic
Summary: pre is stylistic (typografic) rather than semantic. it always has been. The u...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:18 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-08-23 21:26 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:18:16 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 16600 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-04-02 10:33:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-04-02 10:33:34 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-pre-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-pre-element

Comment:
pre is stylistic (typografic) rather than semantic. it always has been. The
use-cases should be rewritten so it becomes semantic (What is semantically
wrong with using code in a p instead of a pre?) In fact, personally I do not
think pre has any semantic value, so why keep it other than the fact it is
used so often? Simply deprecate it. Browsers can still render it so it will
remain backwards compatible?

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Comment 1 Edward O'Connor 2012-08-23 21:26:27 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No change.
Rationale: The <pre> element has several use cases which are difficult
for Web authors to achieve by using other features. Also, the Web corpus
contains a tremendous amount of <pre> usage, so we can never remove it
from the platform.