Quick rants about your BTS

[James Henstridge]

On 3/28/06, Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi> wrote:
> > >This textarea doesn't render very well for me. Make it like
> > >infogami.com
> > >has it. http://ubuntu.infogami.com/_edit/
> > This would be better written as a bug report, ideally defining
> > "doesn't render very well for me" so that developers have something
> > to work with.
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/hendry/119222195/
> versus
> http://ubuntu.infogami.com/_edit/

What are you trying to point out here?  There is a horizontal
scrollbar in the screenshot, but that is only because you've typed a
very long word into the text box.  You'd see that on any website.

Launchpad uses a simple HTML conversion that splits paragraphs at
blank lines, but also tries to maintain indentation and newlines that
don't just look like text wrapping.  It also converts URLs and bug
numbers to hyperlinks.

In the past, people have usually complained that too much text
formatting is done, and that they'd prefer if no formatting was done
(usually in relation to code snippets included in comments).

I think the current algorithm we've got does a pretty good job at
addressing both points of view: paragraph text gets wrapped and code
samples usually pass through intact.

James.