80-character comments: does it matter?

[Albert Ting]

I prefer to get rid of server-side comment wrapping.  In my case, people
often submit patches <verbatim> text, with  valid > 80 columns, and the
auto-wrapping screws it up.  Yes, they could have used attachments, yet it's
more straightforward to add a comment for a small amount of text.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat at bugzilla.org>wrote:

>            Does that actually matter? I'm asking because there is currently
> a bug
> that would be resolved if we did all comment-wrapping client side.
> (Though I'm actually not sure that all browsers can do that reliably,
> but I haven't tested in a while so I forget.) The only problem is that,
> as far as I'm aware, there's no way in CSS to say "this element should
> be exactly X characters wide" so we'd lose the "wrap at exactly 80
> characters" functionality.
>
>        -Max
>
>
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