80-character comments: does it matter?

[Daniel Dickison]

On Dec 17, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> 
> 	Yeah, comments will never be the whole length of the window.
> 
> 	The question is just whether or not we should be doing the wrapping
> with CSS instead of server-side.
> 
> 	It would also make comments look different in email than they do on the
> web, as I'm pretty sure it's still considered rude to send unwrapped
> plain-text email.


I just wanted to point out that the comment input text field has never wrapped at 80-characters for me on Mac OS X, using both Safari and Chrome.  Also, the font is not monospaced in the text field (even though it is in the existing comments).  Perhaps it's a Webkit thing?

Daniel

P.S. I'm a lurker without having actually done any Bugzilla development, but I wanted to put this out there since nobody has mentioned it yet...