We know you have an opinion on how things should be run around here. These are suggestions for the forums, and the website.This forum is not a place to ask for suggestions to your own coding (or otherwise) problems.
I think it would be best if PHPDN used the "monospace" css font family for the message textarea in the post a new topic form. The reason why I suggest monospace font is because whenever I need to write a table design in the Database forum I usually write something like:
table
+----+------+-----+
| id | name | age |
+----+------+-----+
| 1 | 23 | 23 |
+----+------+-----+
it would be be nice to have a monospaced font so that I can align the rows up. With a monospace font it would be easier to illustrate things with text.
Try it out your self. Bookmark this code and call it Monospace it:
Add javascript: to the beginning of the code when you bookmark it. Then execute the bookmarklet when your on the posting form. This code changes the posting forms font to monospace.
How hard would it be to change the font in the posting form?
People try to communicate more than make text illustrations. If we have to choose one font, I'd think it better to error on the side of readability.
A user-by-user setting wouldn't be effective either. We'd then have some people with the default font, and others with a different font, which would make scanability worse.
What happens if you set your font to monospace, then decide to change it back? All your previous posts with your text illustrations would be broken.
I think most people here understand the how and why to put text illustrations in [code][/code] blocks. I understand why you would want something different, but I'm seeing more problems created than solved by adding a new user option.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
The request was to change the font for the textarea in the form on the post submission page (posting.php, not viewtopic.php). This would not affect how the post appears to other users.
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Last edited by McInfo on Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
McInfo wrote:The request was to change the font for the textarea in the form on the post submission page (posting.php, not viewtopic.php). This does not affect how the post appears to other users.
So it was. Guess I got a little off track there.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
blocks I need to be able to line up characters and such. I don't see how changing it or allowing the ability to change it would hurt.
Btw, how'd you write [code ] without having to put a space at the end of "code"?
Ya, that makes sense. I'm for it. I can bring it up with the mods, but it'll be a simple change to make.
There is an option to disable BBCode, right under the posting textarea. That's not what I did though. If you embed BBCode tags within other tags, only the inner tags get interpreted. So basically I just did this:
[code[size=100]][[/size]/code]
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
astions wrote:This feature is in query to be added. We'll need to create a mockup and make sure a majority of the moderators approve it.
I've already created a bookmarklet in my OP that can be used on the posting form. Isn't that considered a mockup? All I'm requesting is to change the css font-family property for the textarea element in the posting form. Doesn't need to be really need an elaborate mockup, or does it?