Firefox vs. IE

Dickless David Tholen whined and tholed:
One particular message board that I visit uses HTML, or
HTML-like tags, for messages. If I type plain text, then
multiple spaces get compressed into just one, which makes
column alignment of tables next to impossible. By using
the pre tag, however, multiple spaces are preserved.
IE will display such a message as expected, but Firefox
will display it triple spaced (vertically). If I replace
the usual CR-LF record separators with br, then Firefox
will display the message as expected, but then IE will
refuse to display blank lines.

Why is it that Firefox and IE display such HTML so
differently? Which one is doing it right? Is there a
simple tag that will make the message look the same way
in both browsers?

It sounds more like its crappy 0S/2, Dickless.