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In alt.ascii-art, Markus Gebhard  <ukgh@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Henry Segerman wrote:
> > : It tells the browser to use a fixed width font there.
> > Doesn't pre do that already?
> No, pre only tells the browser where to keep the blanks and line
> breakings like they are in the html source. Otherwise duplicate blanks
> are united to a single one and line breaks are ignored. Code will make
> it look like program source code - that means the browser will use a
> fixed width font.

And when did that change?

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RFC 1866            Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0        November 1995

5.5.2. Preformatted Text: PRE

   The <PRE> element represents a character cell block of text and is
   suitable for text that has been formatted for a monospaced font.

   The <PRE> tag may be used with the optional WIDTH attribute. The
   WIDTH attribute specifies the maximum number of characters for a line
   and allows the HTML user agent to select a suitable font and
   indentation.
------>8 snip ------

Right there it clearly says the text in a pre-block is supposed
to be monospaced.

Elijah
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has never seen a browser break the mono-font for <PRE> rule