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Bug 8149 - Why put the > signs at the beginning of the line here? It distracts from the example.
Summary: Why put the > signs at the beginning of the line here? It distracts from the ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-11-02 21:38 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:30 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-11-02 21:38:31 UTC
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-section-element

Comment:
Why put the > signs at the beginning of the line here? It distracts from the example.

Posted from: 96.240.200.114
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2009-11-08 12:32:10 UTC
*** Bug 8228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-04 11:05:30 UTC
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: For some people, that's the way they prefer to write HTML, and using the other conventions (as in most of the other examples) is similarly distracting. Because of this, I've tried to use many conventions in the examples.