> As we start > talking about the rendering of text we're getting away from heart > described in the FAQ. I'm starting to feel this way, too. But let's see how I feel tomorrow. :) > I've been a voice behind the discussion of whether to reflow or not, but > even that I'll admit goes a bit further than necessary. The reflowing question I guess has been the start of all this. it's something that many, many people have requested - unsurprisingly in this smartphone-obsessed world. And since it seemed harmless I said, "sure, let's reflow". But it's not harmless, it breaks lots of functional styling we can do with just plain text, and it seems hard to undo that harm without cranking the complexity level up considerably by defining different kinds of entity which should/should not be reflowed. If there's no reflow, then Markdown "just works" and doesn't even need to be specced. I have to admit, I'm now starting to wonder how essential reflow is. I have a very old phone, whose screen is very small by modern standards. You definitely couldn't buy a new smartphone today with a screen as small as mine. But if I turn it horizontally and let the screen flip, I can actually (just!) view phlog posts wrapped at 70 chars in PocketGopher no problem, without any weird wrapping artifacts. If we recommended wrapping at 60 chars just to be safe, I actually think plain text would be workable on the vast majority of mobile devices. But I'm happy to hear from people with devices were this wouldn't be true. -Solderpunk
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