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A nitpick: text is counted in characters, not in bytes. Bytes are for binaries. So yes, the caption
Yada-Yada (3 bytes)
annoys me.

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Re^2: A bit more about readmore
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Nov 01, 2004 at 14:01 UTC

    Thing is its not going to be a character count, as the html markup content will be counted. So to say X chars would be less accurate than saying X bytes. At least the latter will be correct all the time, where a char count would be wrong almost all of the time.

    Update: I see from the CB chatter history that you and ysth dont like this information to be displayed. I suggest one of you put together a patch to provide a user setting to turn it off. That would be the easiest thing for all concerned. :-)

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    demerphq

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      I see from the CB chatter history that you and ysth dont like this information to be displayed.
      I said that; don't recall bart exactly saying so. But CSS is a better choice than adding a user setting.
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        I assume it was added after these comments were posted, but for those who are interested, adding .readmore-size { display: none; } to your site CSS will make the number of bytes/characters vanish.

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Re^2: A bit more about readmore
by itub (Priest) on Nov 01, 2004 at 15:21 UTC
    This really is nitpicking if you consider that, for the character encoding used here, 1 char == 1 byte in terms of space.
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