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tt

Brandon:: what is <tt>?
Daniel:: teletype
Brandon:: what does that mean?
Daniel:: basically, fixed-width font, pre-css
Brandon:: wow, somehow I’ve never encountered that tag; it’s still used in XHTML
Daniel:: wtf?
How the hell did this make it into xhtml 1.1? Did we run out of room
in the mass grave?
I demand an explanation.
Matt:: I am deeply offended by this

xhtml July 19, 2006

Daniel Morrison July 19, 2006

I get a bit vulgar when talking about standards.
Matt July 19, 2006

This is the second time this has hapened to me this week. Just the other day I found out &lt;small&gt; is still valid. wtf? small? even worse I found out it was valid because a friend was using it. 523kB document, 200kB of it was small tags. When will people learn? Won’t someone think of the children? Presentation has no place in markup.

And don’t think I didn’t notice you put your &lt;tt&gt; inside a tt tag.
Daniel Morrison July 20, 2006

And don’t think I didn’t notice you put your inside a tt tag.

Brilliant.
Brandon July 20, 2006

And don’t think I didn’t notice you put your <tt> inside a tt tag.

Hey, if it’s valid XHTML, I might as well use it, right?
Matt July 20, 2006

No. take the moral high ground.

Plus, a putting it inside <code> would be more semantic.
Daniel Morrison July 21, 2006

Valid != good. Valid is a subset of good.

Semantic code would be better, so Matt’s right. What does <tt> mean semantically? Lump it in with <small> and the like. Just because they’re there, doesn’t mean its good.
Brandon July 21, 2006

Yeah, that was a sarcastic. I used it so smarties like Matt would have an easter egg to find.