in reply to Explicit forum width

I thinks these sorts of problems are caused by people using <pre> tags. <code> tags are much nicer to the forum, as they do text wrapping, while allowing one to recover the original code with a download. Long titles like OT: Advice on escaping Corporate America / Starting own consultancy outfit? usually wrap automatically.

If you see such problems, consider the node for editing.

-Mark

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Re: Re: Explicit forum width
by flyingmoose (Priest) on Apr 17, 2004 at 17:13 UTC
    I am always one to ask the meta-question "can this be automated"? So, why consider when we can s/$pretag/you-can't-do-that/g ? It seems to go with the philosophy of not trusting user input on internet forums.

    I haven't checked, but I am assuming we are doing things to remove javascript...

    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> document.write("Hello World!"); </SCRIPT>

    So yes, why do we allow pre?

      because there are legitimate uses of pre tags

      some monks us them to create small ascii art sigs.

      Other monks use them when raw data, or the output of a script -- which they don't want to put in code blocks because it's not code, it shouldnt' be included in the code download

      Generating a warning if someone submits text with a pre tag containing lines longer then N characters is one thing, but it would be a travesty to flat out reject the tag just because some people don't know how to use it in a non-obtrusive way.

      PS: regecting pre tags doesn't really do anthing about long sequences of &nbsp; tags...