Re: syntax highlighting of code in perlmonks forums

With a light background, that's unreadable, so schemes have to be customizable... But people can write their own schemes with CSS, which means that the syntax-hilighting output has to be easily CSS-manipulable to match... which means we have to either mess with the output of an existing colorizer a lot, or we have to write our own.

It uses a lot of CPU.

It'd be a lot of work to put up.

It'd get a lot of code, such as many obfuscations, wrong, which would make them even more difficult. Those that it doesn't get wrong it would make too easy, or just make them look nacious.

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Re: Re: syntax highlighting of code in perlmonks forums by TomDLux (Vicar) on Jun 10, 2003 at 05:42 UTC
And, even worse, if it got obfuscations right, they wouldn't be obfuscations any more. -- `TTTATCGGTCGTTATATAGATGTTTGCA`	[reply]