code formatting
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@drmike – I’m not sure what you mean about putting my blog at risk. Please elaborate.
And in response to, “Looks the same to me actually” – look specifically at the code blocks on this post. It scrolls beautifully in Firefox, but I had forgotten to check it in IE until just now… where it also happens to scroll – though it’s not as pretty as it could be. (Even in IE6!)
There are a few themes that do support the code tag, but thats not what my focus was – it was to find a theme that facilitated posting blocks of code. And if you followed the link I provided when I made my offer, you’ll notice that I tried every theme available and none of them do it right. So there’s your list: none.
And to top it all off, I did offer to help but wasn’t even acknowledged. Why should I put time and effort into something that you made no attempt to inform me would be appreciated?
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It’s not a good idea to predicate your self-esteem on guarantees of appreciation from technical help forums.
All the people who post in this forum are bloggers just trying to help out. Maybe we do it because we’re crazy, but some of us do it simply because we think helping out is a good thing to do. If you don’t think so, nobody is going to force you.
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We are crazy… yes we are ;) In terms of ‘properly’ supporting the code tag, I would imagine that the CSS upgrade should be able to ‘fine tune’ the look of how it displays text, but if you moved already, it would be kind of irrelavant. In terms of the offering help, it is all about ‘what is in your heart’ I guess! :) It is strange how code is displayed in the same theme on self-hosted though. Hmm…..
Trent
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It’s also not a good idea to invest time and effort into something that has zero chance of coming to fruition. I was merely stating that I wasn’t going to waste my time if my changes weren’t somehow made available to me for free. And when that didn’t happen, *gasp* … I made it happen for myself, for free, by moving.
The whole benefit of putting my blog here was that it was free and easy to set up. Even easier than installing a second copy on my own webserver, where I was already running 1 copy of WordPress. When I found out that a feature I wanted wasn’t available (for free) I offered to make it. When nobody accepted that offer, I left. I don’t see why you’re so offended.
As far as the CSS upgrade (trent) – I suppose that’s nice for people who don’t pay for a server and domain otherwise, but for me it would be a frivolous expense. If anyone does happen to come across this thread and desire what I did, I invite you to follow the links I’ve posted – because I accomplished my goal, and the CSS is there for the taking.
Trent – I’m not exactly sure what you’re getting at, but I think you’re comparing how my code blocks are displayed here versus on my own hosted copy. That’s because I am, *gasp again!*, using the same theme… but I took the liberty of editing the CSS.
Sorry again for not wanting to waste my money for something that should be free to begin with!
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I understand what you are getting at, but really I don’t think anyone here is trying to start any drama here :) If the theme isn’t displaying the code the way you want by default, it is worth a feedback into the staff about it since they control the backend templates and CSS by default. Trashing why it doesn’t work here really won’t get you the desired results. I just mentioned that the CSS upgrade would fix it (which it would) and understand that if you have your own server, that isn’t worth it to you! Either way, it looks good on your self-hosted blog and that is what counts! Cheers for that!
Trent
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The OP has a point here. A good theme would cover all the bases in typography – address, cite, code, q, etc. But a lot of them simply omit half the necessary CSS. And many of those same themes end up here. For a fanatical techie community like bloggers; code formatting should be a no brainer. As to how a guy could be *putting his blog at risk* by editing his own CSS God alone knows. This forum is going from bad to worse.
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Can something be done about the autoformatting done to code tags in the editor? If you put code tags around a section with multiple line breaks, the code tag is stripped from all but the first blocks of text.
thanks!
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Yeah better support for code-blocks would be a great feature…. I have tried preformatted and the code tags but nothing works just right. Preformatted still changes the quotation marks while code breaks in between multiple line breaks (via the code tab dunno how to add code tags from the editor).
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Well, wordpress.com added support for sourcecode tag a few weeks ago.
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