Monospace font in message textarea for posting a topic.

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Are you for the monospace font in the posting form?

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Maybe
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John Cartwright
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Re: Monospace font in message textarea for posting a topic.

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We take all modifications to the board with a grain of salt because updating the forums becomes quite tedious. Not to mention we are looking at alternative forums with a more solid codebase, and from there plan on making all the neccesary changes we dream about.
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I wrote a Greasemonkey script to address this issue.

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Re: Monospace font in message textarea for posting a topic.

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I'm for it. Come on, guys, it's not a lot of change, just a font-family in css.
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Weirdan wrote:I'm for it. Come on, guys, it's not a lot of change, just a font-family in css.
Yes but I suggest it to be a optional preference in the Board Preferences section in the User Control Panel (ucp.php?i=prefs&mode=post).

How hard could it be? Look at the votes, majority wants it.
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JellyFish wrote:Yes but I suggest it to be a optional preference in the Board Preferences
That would be definitely harder than just changing the css, and it's a kind of change we would like to avoid.
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Weirdan wrote:
JellyFish wrote:Yes but I suggest it to be a optional preference in the Board Preferences
That would be definitely harder than just changing the css, and it's a kind of change we would like to avoid.
Why is this?
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Re: Monospace font in message textarea for posting a topic.

Post by pickle »

PHPBB is horrible for plugins. As in, there's no functional way to add plugins. As in, if we add a plugin we have to modify basecode to do it. Any modification we do means we have to re-do whenever we update the board software. On a well-used site like this, any time we have to go messing with the source code is a bit of a crapshoot.
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