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> > Or you could include this bit in each of your replies (note
> The forum response window appears to break these lines at > about 75 characters. (I'm not sure if this is dependent on the browser > or the font being used, but it's what I see the forum doing in Firefox.) > > So I was trying to find the best 'em' value when responding to > another's post, and settled on an em of 45. I use Courier New as my > default browser font, so again, I'm not sure whether this is browser or > font dependent. The forum software runs on the server, and has no idea of font or font size in the browser. It only has the post’s textual contents (including any HTML codes it contains), and tries to construct a reply based on that. So I’m assuming it merely counts characters to wrap the lines. Apart from whitespace normalization, it does have some rudimentary parsing to be able to skip HTML elements in the reply, but that isn’t very robust; if the post contains HTML that is more than a very simple tag — for example, if the HTML tag contains quoted attributes (which is merely good practice) — it will tend to stumble, and sometimes include the HTML attribute in the cited text. The reply mechanism looks like it’s inspired by mail clients, so 75 characters sounds logical. (The older e-mail standards suggest wrapping plain text e-mails at 72 characters, to prevent any line exceeding 80 characters —accounting for some control characters, and the CR/LF at the end— so that it would always fit on the 80-column consoles of the time). > For everyone's info, the forum script purposely does not apply a font > to the postings. This is so you can set your browser to the default font > of your choice when a web page font is not specified. This option is > available in IE, Chrome and Firefox, but not in Edge. That’s something I’ve always liked. The end user decides what they want it to look like, instead of it being dictated by the author (who might have completely different preferences and device capabilities, or even physical capabilities, than the reader).
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