Posted by kdarling on 10/05/06 18:34

Harlan Messinger wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> > Scripsit Andy Dingley:
> >
> >> Please, don't use <xmp> That one was obsolete and deprecated even
> >> before <XML>.
> >
> > And even before HTML. The _first_ HTML specification ever mentions <xmp>
> > only as obsolete and deprecated.
>
> Did they include it as a joke?

It's the only tag that does what's often needed. Yes, it's
obsolete/deprecated (depending on which standard you use), but so are
CENTER, FONT and U, all of which will be around a long long time.

XMP is still supported by IE, Opera, Mozilla, etc. It's just too handy
to die. So unless you're writing a browser and don't want to implement
it and hate people who use it, or are just anal-retentive, then I see
no reason not to take advantage of it.. at least for personal use :-)

Kev (I love standards, been programming since 1978, but have seen a lot
of things come and go that shouldn't have ;-)

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