It won't be the first time I have been out of step with popular opinion but I am surprised that everyone else seems to be quite happy for code to stretch as far as it likes rather than being constrained in a small box with scroll bars as it used to be.
Even if I don't like it I can quite understand that the "team" won't bother fixing a "problem" that has no general support.
Robin2:
It won't be the first time I have been out of step with popular opinion but I am surprised that everyone else seems to be quite happy for code to stretch as far as it likes rather than being constrained in a small box with scroll bars as it used to be.
Permit me to reassure you, you are by no means out of step with popular opinion. I am quite sure all of us who post - or review - code, agree with you 100%.
It's just that people have been too busy whinging about the other problems which make simple things more difficult. :o
I have now decided "I can't be bothered" to comment on two or three questions just because the properly presented code is so long that I can't easily skip from the top to the bottom and back to see the user's comments or questions.
This is doing nobody a favour.
Back in the day when long code meant that the user hadn't bothered to use code tags you could at least complain about that.
It may be my imagination but it seems to me that there has been more code posted without the code tags since the upgrade and the sticky still refers to the '#' button rather than the 'plus sign over a scroll' button, even of people actually read it.
It may be my imagination but it seems to me that there has been more code posted without the code tags since the upgrade and the sticky still refers to the '#' button rather than the 'plus sign over a scroll' button, even of people actually read it.
apparently the new icons have met with approval of the user interface team.
They must have very good eyesight. The old #, whilst meaningless in itself, was very easy to describe and see.
I have just noticed when using Win 7 and Chrome hovering near the bottom/right corner of the code box and holding down the left mouse button allows the box to be resized. Robin mentioned this in another thread and I reported that it did not work for me.
Amusingly it only allows you to make the box larger, not smaller though .......
Yes, thanks for the fix although I know that a senior member of the forum was caught out earlier today by thinking that a user had not posted all of his code because it appeared severely truncated in the code box with scroll bars !