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Entry form doesn't allow more than 140 chars #56

Closed aheusingfeld closed 9 years ago

aheusingfeld commented 11 years ago

Currently the entry form doesn't allow more than 140 chars.

Personally I was very glad when Twitter changed this and allowed more chars while disabling the "Send" button. IMHO it's much better to first write what you want to say and afterwards see whether you can (or need to) shorten something.

Therefore of course the counter should be enabled to display negative values. We could even use Bootstraps error visualisation for the entry field so that it'll have a red "glow".

stilkov commented 11 years ago

+1

FND commented 11 years ago

perhaps all we need to do is replace the current plugin (see 52fdfd9f5f619cb9441203ae91110fb1bf99f441) with http://wchar.websanova.com

kintor commented 10 years ago

I'm afraid, this plugin does the same as the current. You can set a limit and then the input-field doesn't accept additional chars. But @aheusingfeld would like to type more chars, wouldn't he?

aheusingfeld commented 10 years ago

@kintor yes. At least the demos of the plugin do also cut off "overlapping" text. The documented configuration options don't look promising to me either. :-(

FND commented 10 years ago

We could always submit a pull request to change the behavior; it's all FOSS after all.

The code for either plugin seems fairly simple, so this shouldn't be too big a challenge. Any volunteers?

aheusingfeld commented 9 years ago

Will push the fix once we're finished with #71.