80-character comments: does it matter?

[Bill Barry]

It'd be nice if the stuff wasn't doing server newlines but rather there 
was some kind of ruler at the top of the comment (either each comment 
individually or all together). The ruler could default at 100ish chars 
but you could click/drag it as wide or narrow as you need.

This way for paragraph style comments it still looks nice, but for fancy 
stuff  like ascii art it could be moved in/out to get the pic right.

Also for quoted lines (ones that start with >), no re-lining should be 
done at all (either server side or client side with some fancy ruler 
thingy).

Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 17/12/09 06:09, David Balažic wrote:
>> I absolutely hate when the web server forces a decision like this on me.
>> If the line is too long for me, I simply drag the edge of the browser 
>> window
>> narrower and the problem is fixed in split second.
>
> Except that if the window is narrow enough for the optimum reading 
> with for comments, it's too narrow to fit in all the bug fields above. 
> A scheme where the recommended Bugzilla policy for window size was 
> "you need to resize the window every time you scroll up and down a 
> bug" would be laughable.
>
> And many people will not resize their window, and so get a sub-optimal 
> reading experience without knowing why. An important usability tenet 
> is to make life better for the user without bothering them about it or 
> making them do stuff to get the benefit.
>
> Gerv
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