Proposed change to bugs.css for text-wrapping in <pre> blocks

["Jeremy Seitz [foz]" <foz@democracynow.org>]

Dear bugs.debian.org Web Site Maintainer(s),

I find bug reports difficult to read because when there are long  
lines. A bug's "message text" is wrapped in a <pre> tag -- which does  
not word-wrap well on most browsers. As a result, when someone types  
a long paragraph that is not word-wrapped, or there is a really long  
line of output, it ends up being making the page really wide. This  
requires the user to scroll horizontally to read it, like a news ticker.

If you were to enforce wordwrap via CSS, then program output and code  
would be forced to wrap as well. I find this trade-off acceptable,  
rather than being forced to scroll. If someone needed an exactly- 
formatted line, they could copy and paste - from the browser to the  
editor or shell - with original line breaks in tact.

A detailed explanation of this hack is here:
http://cheeaun.phoenity.com/weblog/2005/06/whitespace-and-generated- 
content.html

Thanks,
Jeremy Seitz

The following change to bugs.css (used by bugreport.cgi) would enable  
this behavior for all <pre> tags:

--- bugs.css   2006-04-25 00:04:24.000000000 -0400
+++ bugs.css   2006-04-25 00:07:26.000000000 -0400
@@ -69,6 +69,18 @@
     font-size: 95%;
}
+
+pre {
+       white-space: pre; /* CSS2 */
+       white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
+       white-space: -hp-pre-wrap; /* HP printers */
+       white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
+       white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
+       white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS 2.1 */
+       white-space: pre-line; /* CSS 3 (and 2.1 as well, actually) */
+       word-wrap: break-word; /* IE */
+
+}
+
pre.message {
     font-family: monospace;
     padding-top: 0;