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code quotes haven't had a horizontal scroll on HN for months (years?)

• codetrotter 5y ago
  I remember that it used to scroll horizontally on mobile and was actually surprised when I saw the GP comment was wrapped even though it was formatted as code. Not sure whether I haven’t noticed the change before or if I saw it but forgot about it – either way I think it must be a relatively recent change. I still prefer code formatting to only be used for code snippets, commands and command outputs though. For quotes I like leading each quoted paragraph with a “>” sign and a space. Like we do in plain text emails. Same kind of thing that they talk about in http://catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html
  • sundarurfriend 5y ago
    > was actually surprised when I saw the GP comment was wrapped even though it was formatted as code. Same, when I saw it on a PC. Originally I saw it on a mobile app‡, which still uses horizontal scrolls - hence my comment. ‡ https://f-droid.org/bo/packages/nl.viter.glider/ https://f-droid.org/bo/packages/nl.viter.glider/