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I think mostly people forget that > works and that therefore you can do > quotes like this since it's markdown - often you get commentish things that allow li
by mst 11y ago
I think mostly people forget that > works and that therefore you can do
> quotes like this
since it's markdown - often you get commentish things that allow limited HTML plus indented code blocks, and people get used to using the latter as the only thing that works everywhere
- ScottBurson 11y ago'>' doesn't "work"; it doesn't do anything on HN. It's just a convention that readers recognize as indicating quotation. HN does not use Markdown.
- krapp 11y agoI noticed people were doing this and wrote a userscript a while ago to make it work. I kind of wish HN supported it. https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/7a21c0187fedd6f47e7c https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/7a21c0187fedd6f47e7c
- mintplant 11y agoI wrote in a while ago to ask that it be officially supported, but apparently that would break something that HN's spam filter relies on.
- DanBC 11y agoAt least ">" doesn't break anything. Pre is broken on mobile, forcing users to scroll a horizontal line which is incredibly annoying if it's a long line. Here's a screen shot: http://imgur.com/Ru56wMK http://imgur.com/Ru56wMK And pre with very long unbroken lines is even worse.
- ScottBurson 11y agoI wasn't expressing a value judgment, just trying to explain how HN works. I agree with you that it's annoying when people post long indented lines.
- choosername 11y agoit can be touch-scrolled here, there just aren't scroll bars. Took me a while to find, but maybe your browser is buggy, eve.