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That style of quotation renders terribly on mobile. Preserving line width isn't helpful for non-code quotes. You can use ">" and wrap the quoted text with ital
by jshevek 7y ago
That style of quotation renders terribly on mobile. Preserving line width isn't helpful for non-code quotes. You can use ">" and wrap the quoted text with italicizing asterisks.
- Theodores 7y agoVictim blaming! We need to tell our HN moderator what CSS rules need to be changed to get this to work on all devices. Plus when adding a comment the syntax for the markdown should be given.
- jshevek 7y agoMy intention is to inform, not to blame. :) Otherwise, I agree with your suggestion [of providing more guidance on the reply screen] Until a better solution is implemented, would you help spread the word when you see code quotes used this way? Edit: I'm not sure that modifying the presentation of code quotes fully solves the problem, as we still benefit from having two types of quotes, wrap and nowrap.
- leetcrew 7y agoit's for code, not block quotes of english. wrapping is off by design.
- vonmoltke 7y agoThis particular quote renders badly on the desktop as well.
- drummer 7y agoI'm sorry guys but it seems HN styled the quotes like that by itself. I did not add any markup.
- jshevek 7y agoThe markup which causes that formatting is easy to do on accident, as it is just whitespace: Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.) https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc