Can't anyone who maintains this board figure out how to add an auto-line-break feature?

No, we're all too stupid.

Seriously. Round-tripping is hard. Do you convert everything into a canonical form in the database and render it into HTML for display and then back to the poster's preferred form for editing? How do you deal with quirks and mistakes? Is it important to guarantee that the post is preserved as originally typed? There's also backwards compatibility to deal with, some 270,000 nodes that are stored as HTML fragments already.

If you have an easy solution, I'm all ears. I've been doing this long enough that I don't believe in many easy solutions, though.

In reply to Re: Perl Monks hypocrisy by chromatic
in thread Perl Monks hypocrisy by Wassercrats

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