Wrapping code in pre may be alright for an admin posting an entry but I’m talking about comments. I don’t think it would work telling people to do that when they want to post some code. So the way things are right now my pages won’t validate if I use wordpress because of comments with p tags inside code tags and in some cases it breaks the layout. I thought the whole selling point is this:
We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C.