Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document

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From	"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
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Subject	Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document
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2014-03-10 0:16, Denis McMahon wrote:

> It might be a good idea to add a type attribute to your script element.

No it isn't.

> I see no closing tag for the html element.

None is needed.

> I believe it is suggested that a charset line should appear as early as
> possible,

By whom? A Candidate Recommendation says: "The element containing the 
character encoding declaration must be serialized completely within the 
first 1024 bytes of the document." I don't think there's much risk of 
exceeding that limit here.

> Have you considered using a textarea as the output region, rather than an
> inline part of the document?

A textarea element is an inline element.

And it is for user input of text. Using it for mere data presentation 
was popular in the mid-1990s when web technologies were slightly more 
primitive than today.

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Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-03-09 07:01 +0200
  Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-03-09 17:05 +0200
    Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-03-09 17:15 +0100
    Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-03-09 19:25 +0200
      Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-03-09 19:44 +0100
    Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-03-10 18:01 +0000
      Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-03-11 09:59 +0100
  Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-03-09 16:54 +0100
  Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-09 16:30 +0000
  Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-03-09 22:16 +0000
    Re: JavaScript in a PRE element of an HTML document "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-03-10 07:30 +0200

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