No dynamic styling (no FOUC - Flash Of Unstyled Content)
Small footprint - no JavaScript brush to load (JS + CSS is about 6kb)
Users can open the code in a popup window for easy printing
Users can swap between formatted and non-formatted views
Users can collapse and expand large snippets
Users can navigate the options via the keyboard
Developers can choose to emphasize an arbitrary line(s)
Developers can turn line numbering on or off
URLs inside formatted snippets are click-able