Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/01/95 11:46

Jose wrote:
>>> Except for browsers that don't support the code tag.
>>
>> And which browsers might that be?
>
> Older ones.
>
> I don't have a list (nor do I really care), but it good design to design
> standards that don't break in older browsers. That is the way I believe
> HTML is set up - if a tag is unrecognized, it is ignored. A code tag
> that is ignored leaves what's inside to be interpreted raw. So, what's
> inside needs to be safe raw, and the code tag needs to take that into
> account when it's interpreted.

How old do you want to go here MSIE4.x and NN4.x recognize the tag and
their usage is less than 1/10 percent!

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Jonathan
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