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I'd like to complain about two
bugs
features in the SDN forums that drive me nuts:
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<li>When someone posts really long code lines, they are not automatically wrapped or width limited with horizontal scrollbar. Even worse, the whole page (more precise the div #jive-flatpage) all of a sudden extends to the right rendering the whole thread pretty much unreadable.</li>
<li>Formatting gets lost if somebody posts more than 2,500 characters.</li>
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Ok, the first problem looks like missing CSS formatting to me (correct me if I'm wrong). Anyhow, no longer for me, thanks to custom style sheets, because now I'm limiting the width of .jive-pre and code and postings look good (as overflow is already set to auto I get a horizontal scrollbar, which is much more acceptable to me). I propose that SAP fixes their style sheets.
Also, I never understood the messed up formatting when a posting contains too many characters. I cannot imagine what users would tell me if I'd design an application and deliver it to them with the hint read the instructions and avoid postings longer than 2,500 characters (oh and by the way, if in doubt, just count the characters or paste it in some other tool that can give you those counts). Hhhmm, then on the other hand, maybe SAP was really hard pressed to quickly deliver a working application in no time for no cost like the rest of us...;-)
Anyhow, admittedly, you can tell when hitting the Preview tab. But what do we expect from users that even seem to lazy to <em>search before posting</em>? I favor a solution that prevents entering messages if formatting gets lost.
So the first problem I think should be trivial to fix, the second problem might be a tad harder to get implemented.
Enough ranting for today (though I'm really tempted to comment on the more important topic <em>expert forums</em>).
Cheers, harald
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p.s.: As an example below a silly ABAP code line that should mess up the whole thread...
> WRITE: 'I should never post really long code lines because it will mess up the whole thread unless I am optimistic that SAP will fix the CSS'.
> But you can use the right angle brackets to get around this.
Edited by: Rob Burbank on Apr 6, 2010 10:10 AM