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Apart from being alert, cautious and the stress on testing, the takeaway for me is "this bug made a live, growing website look largely dead to the world,

by jyothi 18y ago

Apart from being alert, cautious and the stress on testing, the takeaway for me is "this bug made a live, growing website look largely dead to the world, and Google accordingly sent most of their searchers to get their bingo cards elsewhere." Most web businesses need to understand how google search works than their own businesses.

handelaar 18y ago
This is the second time in a row that I've been unable to read a page on my laptop because you insist on posting quotes like that. Cut that shit out, please.
- DLWormwood 18y ago
  Hear, hear! Whatever Hacker News is using needs to force wrap pre-formatted text! I feel like I'm reading Slashdot in the late 90's because of it...
- ars 18y ago
  I hate that too. The solution for me is to install the 'Nuke Anything Enhanced' addon, then remove the offending lines.
  - natrius 18y ago
    Better solution: Install the Stylish extension and add a white-space: pre-wrap rule for this site.
- soundsop 18y ago
  Voting up this feature request might help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280852 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280852
- jyothi 18y ago
  I don't see why I who commented on a valuable takeaway from the post should be downmodded for this and your comment is upmodded. Yours is the one irrelevant to the post. PG, please add a official Don'ts in formatting. It is nothing but natural to quote elsewhere on the web.
  - handelaar 18y ago
    Trying to be more specifically helpful, since I don't think I conveyed exactly what the objection was the first time (or at least not so well that you understood): It's not that you quoted. It's that the quote is wrapped in <code> and <pre> tags, and that breaks the layout for lots of people. I'm asking you not to do that, because its effect is obnoxious.
- eru 18y ago
  Opera handles this intelligently, it seems. (Or the bug/feature is already fixed.)
  - Elepsis 18y ago
    By intelligently, you mean by letting the text vanish instead of putting in a horizontal scrollbar? While this is my preferred behavior, I don't think I'd necessarily call it intelligent.
    - eru 18y ago
      The opera I used at the time of writing gave the text its own little scrollbar.
- deleted 18y ago
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scott_s 18y ago
Offsetting text is for code, not quotations. Italics or quotes in a paragraph of its own should do fine.

by jyothi 18y ago

handelaar 18y ago

This is the second time in a row that I've been unable to read a page on my laptop because you insist on posting quotes like that. Cut that shit out, please.

DLWormwood 18y ago
Hear, hear! Whatever Hacker News is using needs to force wrap pre-formatted text! I feel like I'm reading Slashdot in the late 90's because of it...
ars 18y ago
I hate that too. The solution for me is to install the 'Nuke Anything Enhanced' addon, then remove the offending lines.
- natrius 18y ago
  Better solution: Install the Stylish extension and add a white-space: pre-wrap rule for this site.
soundsop 18y ago
Voting up this feature request might help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280852 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280852
jyothi 18y ago
I don't see why I who commented on a valuable takeaway from the post should be downmodded for this and your comment is upmodded. Yours is the one irrelevant to the post. PG, please add a official Don'ts in formatting. It is nothing but natural to quote elsewhere on the web.
- handelaar 18y ago
  Trying to be more specifically helpful, since I don't think I conveyed exactly what the objection was the first time (or at least not so well that you understood): It's not that you quoted. It's that the quote is wrapped in <code> and <pre> tags, and that breaks the layout for lots of people. I'm asking you not to do that, because its effect is obnoxious.
eru 18y ago
Opera handles this intelligently, it seems. (Or the bug/feature is already fixed.)
- Elepsis 18y ago
  By intelligently, you mean by letting the text vanish instead of putting in a horizontal scrollbar? While this is my preferred behavior, I don't think I'd necessarily call it intelligent.
  - eru 18y ago
    The opera I used at the time of writing gave the text its own little scrollbar.
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scott_s 18y ago

Offsetting text is for code, not quotations. Italics or quotes in a paragraph of its own should do fine.