[wp-testers] Code Kvetching

[Matthew Robinson]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Aaron D. Campbell <aaron at xavisys.com> 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.

Quite right you are too if you check out the W3C definition of HTML 4.01.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1

"CODE Designates a fragment of computer code"

Matt