On 10/19/2011 06:27 PM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@...> wrote: > <snip> > >> Nobody should have to go out of their way to format for web >> forums. > You're forgetting what happens when someone responds > to a post via the Web site. The software adds hard > returns to the end of every line (if there isn't one > already) and two characters (>[space]) to the beginning > of every line. The result is that longer lines get > broken instead of wrapping, and it gets worse the > longer an exchange goes on. >
Totally unnecessary and bad coding on Yahoo's part. I wrote word wrap algorithms back in the mid-1980s. I also assigned it as a coding lesson for beginning programmers. With HTML you just need the paragraph tags. These days people are reading on smartphones which may have shorter than 72 characters per line. I noted this with Turq's post looking at FFL posts on my Android phone while at Starbucks. His post would display a line and then the rest of the line below. Everyone else's posts wrapped nicely to the screen. Don't think I read any of your posts though. > But the extra characters at the beginnings of lines > make a conversation so much easier to follow; you > always know who's written what by how many> > characters precede the lines. The early BBS readers > were so much better at this. It's vertical colored lines on Thunderbird but I believe you have set them to > if you wax nostalgia. ;-)
