Re: posting window

Posted by Dr. Bob on May 31, 2004, at 20:58:59

In reply to Re: posting window, posted by Dr. Bob on February 4, 2002, at 19:39:49

> > The single biggest obstacle to effectively editing posts for me is the small size of the posting window. For long posts I usually move the contents to a notepad file and move it back when I'm done.
>
> I could make the window bigger, it's just a pain if it's wider than your browser window, since then you have to scroll horizontally all the time... It seems like it should be pretty easy with cookies, but I haven't seen anyone else do that
Well, now I have:
http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/examples/customize.cgi
> Anyway, then you could just choose how big you wanted the window yourself.
Sorry it took a while to get to this, but better late than never? Give this a try:
http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/pb/settings.pl
FWIW, I ended up not doing it with a new cookie, since then you would need to set it on each computer you used. But it does require the name and password cookies, since that's the only way the server can tell who you are when you first go to the posting form...
Bob

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