Why does Internet Explorer put tab stops at 8-character intervals instead of 4, like all right-thinking people?

Raymond ChenSeptember 11, 2013Sep 11, 201309/11/13

When you embed a TAB character (U+0009) in a <PRE> block (or more precisely, an element whose white-space CSS property is computed to be pre or pre-wrap), Internet Explorer will move the current position to the next multiple of eight characters. Many people prefer four. (Some insist that only four is the correct value and anybody who ...