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Subject: 
Tabs in web interface (was: Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?))
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lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:37:49 GMT
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In lugnet.space, "Tom McDonald" <radiotitan@spamcake.yahoo.com> writes:

Typical Population/Staff Amount
Large and/or
Varied <---------------- Few and Specialized ---------> Unmanned

base   port post outpost relay*
station   waystation depot colony terminal
city terminal platform*

Yuck! I forgot that Lugnet substitutes spaces for tabs made with ^I.

Nope, it doesn't!  Tabs are actually preserved.  If you do a "view source"
on this...

   http://www.lugnet.com/space/?n=87

...you'll see that tabs are actually output correctly as "&#9;" HTML entity
sequences.  It's actually your browser which is converting the tabs to
spaces, but it's also an artifact of using a variable-width font (whatever
your default is, usually Times) rather than <PRE></PRE>.

However, if you simply click the "View Raw Message" link in the upper-right,
it brings you here:

   http://www.lugnet.com/news/raw.cgi?lugnet.space:87

where you can see the exact whole message with a MIME type of "text/plain".

The reason a variable width font is used for messages rather than
<PRE></PRE> is not for beautification of the messages, but to ensure that
they fit on the screen.  The default monospace font on most browsers is a
really really wide Courier, and 80 characters don't even fit in 640-wide
window.


It doesn't show up that way in the web interface message editing window
though.

I think this depends on how your browser renders the <TEXTAREA> tag.

Sorry about the confusion, in any case...

--Todd



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?)
 
(...) Yuck! I forgot that Lugnet substitutes spaces for tabs made with ^I. It doesn't show up that way in the web interface message editing window though. Oh well, do visit the website cuz that's much better lookin. (see prev post) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)

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