Re: 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?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Explicit forum width by hossman (Prior) on Apr 17, 2004 at 18:08 UTC
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   tags... Read more... (392 Bytes)	[reply]