Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist bugs.debian.org displays the contents of messages as preformatted text. A new line only shows if the message contains a newline, as exemplified here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747264#5 Consequently, many will prefer having manual newlines in the messages they send, to prevent readers from having to scroll horizontally: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747264#10 I have even seen several contributors requesting others to behave the same (as the previous message also exemplifies).
A more efficient solution would be to have bugs.debian.org deal with line-wrapping. Unfortunately HTML alters the display of newlines by default, which would be very bad for bugs.debian.org and which is why it uses <pre> tags rather <p>. A couple of solutions are possible: Use p but convert messages to use <br> rather than raw newlines. Use pre but automatically insert newlines everytime a line would be "long". This has the same drawback as people manually breaking their messages. We don't know what will be "long" for the browser. A cheaper solution in terms of processing would be to use line-wrapping CSS. See for example http://longren.io/wrapping-text-inside-pre-tags/ Having this work with all browsers may be non-trivial currently, but addressing the issue for most browsers should not. white-space: pre-wrap is all my Iceweasel needs, and is all I'd need to happy. -- Filipus Klutiero http://www.philippecloutier.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
