Bug 57639 – Unnecessary/Problematic <pre> tags around messages

• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description rayntosca 2004-07-19 14:12:59 UTC]

Every message is wrapped in <pre>...</pre> tags, but there are no <cr>'s in the text, so for browsers that actually implement the HTML standard correctly, the lines go way, way off to the right.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View the page in a standards compliant web browser
Actual Results:  
The bug report was annoyingly inconvenient to read.

Expected Results:  
Either drop the <pre>...</pre> tags, or hardwrap emails at 78 characters (or where appropriate if the email is <format-flowed>)

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[Comment 1 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-08-27 04:53:17 UTC]

Can you give an example link where you see this behavior?  This page looks fine in Moz Firefox, so if that's not a "standards compliant web browser" then you'll need to provide details about that, too.

[Comment 2 rayntosca 2004-08-27 11:15:27 UTC]

Created attachment 38315 [details]
How the text should be displayed

[Comment 3 rayntosca 2004-08-27 11:16:18 UTC]

Created attachment 38316 [details]
Non-W3C Standards Compliant Display

[Comment 4 rayntosca 2004-08-27 11:17:40 UTC]

Look at the URL I included with the bug report (Bug # 45100). Go down to Additional Comment #6. Look at the second line that starts: "The difficulty here is that, does anyone actually run a vanilla gentoo ...". That line contains 149 characters and is inside <pre>...</pre> tags.  The next comment is even worse. It contains a line (Starts with: "I would prefer to run vanilla gentoo...") that is 624 characters long. 

iCab displays both lines as it should, 149 and 624 characters and then a return. Mozilla, IE and others display the line incorrectly and wrap it at the window width. See the attached files.

[Comment 5 rayntosca 2004-08-27 11:38:28 UTC]

Semi-Mea Culpa. I thought this was a problem with the templates used at gentoo.org. It's actually a core bug in bugzilla: <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11901> The code in bugzilla relies on two non-standard behaviors, the first is "wrap=hard" on input and Mozilla, IE and others wrapping text to the window width even when the HTML tags say not to.

[Comment 6 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-05-12 14:51:30 UTC]

The line wrap has been put into 2.19.3 of bugzilla, which has not been released yet and is known to be very unstable. I will keep an eye on it.

-Jeffrey