If you use <pre>, then please keep your lines at or below widths of 60 characters each. If you do that, then whether you use <pre> or <code> is a matter of personal taste, whether or not you want the text to be downloadable, and whether you want HTML tags to be quoted or executed.

Using long lines with <code> is fine but using long lines with <pre> just sucks. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")