Re: <pre> versus <code> white-space:pre; when pasting

On 20 Jul 2005 02:13:31 -0700
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:


> Also, I just tried your source out, and it looks like it works fine to
> me, in firefox and in IE:


This is not about how it *appears* in Firefox. It is about what
happens when the code is highlighted and *pasted* into another
application (say, when somebody wants to grab a code segment from
a web page for compilation/execution). Each of the two cases *look*
the same in Firefox. However, they do not *paste* the same - try
it with say, Word Pad.

At any rate, thank you for showing me that they still look the
same under Windows.


On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:50:18 GMT
Spartanicus <[email protected]> wrote:

: <pre><code>foobar</code></pre>

I missed that one. Interesting - one tag to indicate that it is code
and another one to indicate that whitespace and line feeds are to
be treated as content.

: Hardly.


Well, a further issue is whether the browser should take into
consideration presentation when pasting. After all, the pasting
occurs after the document has been visually rendered - and the
selection operation is working from this rendered data, not the
HTML (and CSS) that gave rise to it.




  Thanks,

  Mike Shell