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sorry to put you on the spot but what makes it difficult to simply ignore `\<pre>` blocks? As to answer your question - beeline is great for _badly_ formatted
by kabacha 6y ago
sorry to put you on the spot but what makes it difficult to simply ignore `\<pre>` blocks?
As to answer your question - beeline is great for _badly_ formatted texts. Many articles are in whooping 120 character long lines or absurdly long, bland paragraphs. In those cases the benefit of beeline is definitely noticable!
Finally for technical bits, it seems that that beeline extension colors each letter individually, however modern css already offers horizontal gradient[1] which might be prettier and somewhat preserve the original document better.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39884260 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39884260
- gnicholas 6y agoThanks for the advice! The last item is the most important I think, and the reason we didn't originally do this is because the plugin has been cross-platform since launch in 2013. I believe at that time the CSS technique only worked on certain browsers. We have been talking about updating the coloring technique to use CSS, but it hasn't been a top priority compared to everything else we've been doing (both on the browser plugin and on the rest of the business). I'm going to talk with the team about your suggestion regarding \<pre> blocks. We're early in the process of addressing this issue, which has come up recently. Hope it's a quick fix!