Quoting a comment with quotes = borked up formatting.
I was just replying to a comment that included quotes which included other quotes, and the formatting went crazy. Normally I delete all but the person I'm responding to, but in this case I wanted to multi-quote my reply to show the context of what I was saying. Text from quotes was appeared in the wrong person's quote boxes. I understand HTML enough to fix it, but it was time consuming and frustrating. Why doesn't VS use BBCode like most forum software?
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lucky760It all has to do with legacy software. Originally, quoting was just a text-based thing.
With VS v4 we added the fancy conversation model, which just took the (sloppy) text-based comments and did the best job it could of parsing it out into the neat left-and-right staggered display.
In VS v5 that method of quoting will no longer exist. Going forward you will be able to quote a maximum of one comment and that comment will be self-contained rather than jumbled into the new comment's body.
Plus, it will all be very user-friendly and pseudo-GUI-based, so code-touching will never again play any part in quoting.
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