<TEXTAREA COLS="12" ROWS="2" NAME="Not a good idea" WRAP=PHYSICAL>Bad idea. Call it a hunch, but I suspect that many people would quickly get irritated by that. We are having enough trouble just getting people to use <CODE> tags. Just imagine the fiasco with all sorts of randomly sized textareas showing up (COLS="300" anyone?)
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Update: For those confused by the replies below, this node used to be in a tiny, tiny textarea (2 rows and 12 columns). The HTML is still there, but apparently the Everything engine now strips it out. | [reply] |
*chuckles* You make a good point, Ovid.
I was thinking more along the lines of a perlmonks-specific tag (such as the brackets used for node-linking) which vroom's code would allow a particular ROWS & COLS, perhaps based on user preferences. Of course this would only be convenient for those of us with accounts.
Update: Another thought would be an IFRAME, if only it was universally supported... :-(
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hehehe Point well made.
Now, to be fair, you *did* make the thing tiny and forbade
the horizontal scrollbar (with "wrap=physical"). I
understand the actual idea as: allow the *viewer* to control
the size of the box, not the poster.
I must admit, though...even while defending the idea, I
would probably not choose to utilize the feature.
Perhaps if the code would automagically use a textarea
when a monk has submitted code wider than a certain
threshold?
Russ
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I have to agree with Ovid on this one. I would have to go more with nuance's post about chopping long lines.
--BigJoe | [reply] |