How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People

Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by x1798DE on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @08:53PM (#12177662)

@evilsocket FYI, the <pre> blocks on that page are really hard to read on mobile because the line breaks are enforced, requiring left-right scrolling. Seems like a blockquote would be a better choice here.

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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by evilsocket on Thursday July 28, 2016 @07:33PM (#12183993)

that should be fixed now, thanks

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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by dredmorbius on Friday July 29, 2016 @01:22AM (#12185152)

NB: you've fixed the styling (renders fairly reasonably on my 10" tablet) but not the markup.

<pre> should be used for preformatted code blocks or similar.

When you're quoting something, the appropriate markup is a <blockuquote> tag pair.

Most sane CSS should render that reasonably, preferably simply by indenting the content.

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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by evilsocket on Saturday July 30, 2016 @04:08PM (#12194478)

i write posts in markdown, they're then "compiled" into html, I should fix the software I'm using ... but as long as it works, for me it's ok, being it styling or markup :)

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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by x1798DE on Monday August 01, 2016 @12:28AM (#12200200)

In markdown I think a blockquote is indicated by >, so:

> This is a quote

> it is rendered as a blockquote.

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