When I've been lucky enough to do green-fields work, I've lobbied the rest of the team for 3-space indents. And the funny thing is that I've never gotten any pushback on it. No one else ever seems to mind. Which is doubly-frustrating for me, because 2-space indents actually present a (minor) difficulty for me. And yet I'm typically looking at 2-space-indented code simply because someone decided years ago that it should be the standard for JS.
You make a really good point about the tab-size CSS feature. If you accept my contention that viewing code in browsers exacerbates the tab hatred, then it makes sense to point the finger at the lack of configurable tab sizes in HTML (in the past). I hadn't even thought of it to that level.
On an even-more-tangential note, it still baffles me that the default indentation for tabs in HTML is 8 spaces. I'm not sure where that came from. I can't think of any other tool I've ever opened where 8-space indents were the default way to display a TAB character.
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
This works with pretty much all GitHub links, and recently also works with gist.github.com links. It's annoying that the default isn't something more reasonable (maybe 4?), but you can change it quite easily.
When I've been lucky enough to do green-fields work, I've lobbied the rest of the team for 3-space indents. And the funny thing is that I've never gotten any pushback on it. No one else ever seems to mind. Which is doubly-frustrating for me, because 2-space indents actually present a (minor) difficulty for me. And yet I'm typically looking at 2-space-indented code simply because someone decided years ago that it should be the standard for JS.
You make a really good point about the
tab-sizeCSS feature. If you accept my contention that viewing code in browsers exacerbates the tab hatred, then it makes sense to point the finger at the lack of configurable tab sizes in HTML (in the past). I hadn't even thought of it to that level.On an even-more-tangential note, it still baffles me that the default indentation for tabs in HTML is 8 spaces. I'm not sure where that came from. I can't think of any other tool I've ever opened where 8-space indents were the default way to display a
TABcharacter.I always blame POSIX in in-person conversation, because nobody will bother to look it up.
Fun fact, you can do this:
github.com/DarkWiiPlayer/restia/bl...
vs.
github.com/DarkWiiPlayer/restia/bl...
(Note the
?ts=3at the end)This works with pretty much all GitHub links, and recently also works with gist.github.com links. It's annoying that the default isn't something more reasonable (maybe 4?), but you can change it quite easily.
That's cool! I hadn't seen that little query string variable option before.