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samatman on Aug 25, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (20...

HTML doesn't do indentation. I typed four spaces between every word in these sentences.

dathinab on Aug 25, 2024 [–]

but HN doesn't provide me with a HTML input field but a text input field and HTML has stuff like <blockquote> absent from HN input format and properly converting user input is a bread and butter task of anything displaying user content

so HTML collapsing whitespace is really meaningless for the argument IMHO

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