Forum .LRN Q&A: font-family: monospace on text forums postings

Do anybody actually think that these monospace postings look good?

I don't see any reason why we'd want to distinguish with a font
between whether people opted for HTML or plaintext when inputting
their message. It's like saying you must wear a white jacket if you
drove a car and a gray jacket if you took the subway. The format is
a means to and end, namely posting a message, and there's no reason
for the distinction. Except to show other people that some poster is
too stupid to even learn HTML 😉

So would anybody mind if I got rid of it in the OpenACS tree?

/Lars

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Posted by Dave Bauer on
Lars,

Please do. I fixed this over at dev.openacs.org, but the changes haven't been merged back into the openacs tree yet.

Not stupid!... just far too lazy to keep typing <b>....</b>

;)

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Posted by Lars Pind on
Alright, I went ahead and removed it. If someone's terribly unhappy about that, we can always put it back in :)

/Lars

Lars,

I haven't tried the dotLRN Forums or OpenACS 4.x BBoard packages, so I
don't know if it has this feature, but back in the old ACS 2.0 Ticket
Tracker (and possibly in the ACS 3.2 Ticket Tracker as well, I don't
recall), there was an option to submit "preformatted" text.  This was
simply plain text with all linebreaks other whitespace preserved
exactly, as you might send in an email, and was HUGELY usefull,
because if you needed to line up columns of text in order to show
something clearly, "preformatted" guaranteed that they would in fact
line up, just like traditional text-only email.  That, of course,
requires a monospaced font.

IMNSHO, all OpenACS text submission boxes should have three options:
HTML, plain text (like the 3.x BBoard), and preformatted plain text
(monospaced, all formatting preserved, like ACS 2.0 Ticket Tracker).

Andy, the bugtracker has preformatted text. You can check it out at http://clients.museatech.net/bug-tracker.

I believe that bboards and forums also have preformatted as an option.

talli

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Posted by Lars Pind on
Bboard do have the preformatted option. Forums, for some reason, do not.

/Lars

lars says: Bboard do have the preformatted option. Forums, for some reason, do not.

just an oversight on my part, feel free to fix it.