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• PRE (Score:2)

  by darobin (1316)

  pudge (and presumably others) don't want <pre> in here because it would allow people to fuxor the layout (by entering very long lines). When I get five minutes of contiguous tuits, I'll prolly put a small pre2slash script that'll throw in the <br/> (err, <br>, XHTML doesn't work here), the &nbsp;, and try to take into account limitations in numbers of contiguous chars. No big deal, I just need those five minutes :)

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  -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
  • Re:PRE (Score:1)

    by pudge (1)

    I'd really like to come up with a better solution to the problem, but I've not yet envisioned one, or had one described to me. Maybe I'll dream on it some night. Of course, my luck, I'll forget it as soon as I wake up.
    • Re:PRE (Score:2)

      by darobin (1316)

      I haven't looked at the Everything engine code, but they have something that apparently can deal with proper formatting of code based on a given number of columns (it wraps beyond that width, and adds a small symbol at the end to indicate wrapping).

      I'm not sure that this would solve the problem completely, but it could help.

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      -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
      • Re:PRE (Score:1)

        by pudge (1)

        I don't like how they do it. I don't like the wrapping thing, I think it's hard to read and clumsy. I'm not saying they're wrong, I'd just prefer something else.
        • Re:PRE (Score:1)

          by chromatic (983) on 2002.02.14 21:02 (#4550) Homepage Journal

          C'mon Pudge, I know you're capable of saying it's wrong. :) I think the filters in both Slash and Everything originally came from Dave DeMaagd a long, long time ago.

          I'd like to revise the HTML parsing code anyway, but haven't finished writing tests.

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