Re: Undesirable whitespace treatment in mail archive display

> On Jun 11, 2018, at 1:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Since we moved to the new website design, the mailing list archives
> display all messages with leading indentation suppressed. This can
> be pretty awful, eg in the code fragment here:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180611170812.7ypf6xs6dlteo57j@alap3.anarazel.de
>
> Looking closer, I think it may not just be leading indentation that
> gets lost; seems like *any* whitespace string gets smashed to a
> single space, cf followup at
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7382.1528737252%40sss.pgh.pa.us
>
> which certainly does not look like it did in my outbox.
>
> I assume this is just an ill-considered stylesheet choice somewhere
> ... can we fix it please?

Hmm…agreed. I’m going to check the old code to see how that was handled. This
may have occurred when trying to make the archives readable across different
viewports.

Jonathan