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Re: Avatars?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Sun, 1 Jun 2003 19:47:49 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> The mess referred to is at posting composition time. the posting box may need to
> be changed to more closely wrap the line wrap???

Do you mean what's sent to the web browser via the <TEXTAREA> box?  That's
actually sent with WRAP=SOFT, which causes 80+ character lines to appear as if
they're wrapped, but they're actually not wrapped.  When the browser submits the
form, the server receives non-wrapped 82-character (for example) lines.

The problem that I've noticed is when someone accidentally types something in
the middle of a quoted paragraph and the browser text-reflows the whole
paragraph and submits the quoted paragraph as a single line.  Since the server
doesn't break lines that begin with ">", the results are terrible.  I'm thinking
that lines which begin with ">" *should* be wrapped if they're excessively long
(like 120 characters or more), and if they contain ">" characters from the
careless reflow mishap on the part of the user, the chosen breakpoints should be
the ">" characters.

Or do you know of other anomalies?

--Todd



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  Re: Avatars?
 
(...) no, I think that's what I was referring to. I could do a screenshot to confirm we're talking about the same thing but ya I think you got it. (23 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: Avatars?
 
(...) The mess referred to is at posting composition time. the posting box may need to be changed to more closely wrap the line wrap??? (23 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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