Timeline for Why doesn't Stack Overflow use Highlight.js instead of Google-Code-Prettify? [duplicate]
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 17:51 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
(While we are at it.) - yes, I did not bump it (that was by a question edit!). [<http://stackoverflow.com/legal/trademark-guidance> (the last section) ]. [(its = possessive, it's = "it is" or "it has". See for example <https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Its-and-It%27s>.)] Expanded.
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 16:35 | history | edited | Ben KellyStaffMod |
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| Aug 26, 2020 at 17:23 | history | edited | Ben KellyStaffMod |
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| May 25, 2016 at 5:49 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Official answer was given on a newer request. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 5:48 | history | closed | Shadow Wizard discussion Users with the discussion badge can single-handedly close discussion questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of Highlight.js: For Real, Please [duplicate] | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 21:59 | comment | added | Robert Mallow | @MartijnPieters thanks. | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 21:54 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | @RobertMallow: yes, nothing has changed there. | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 19:08 | comment | added | Robert Mallow | @MartijnPieters Is SO still using Google Prettify? | |
| Nov 7, 2013 at 14:44 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters |
@Shog9: Looking at softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2011/05/22/highlighters-comparison/en I see a case for highlight.js being faster and thus a better choice for SE. With more languages supported (63 as of the latest version), better support for mixing languages (JS in HTML is fully supported) and higher speed, isn't it time for highlight.js to be given some thought?
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| Mar 23, 2012 at 4:57 | comment | added | its_me | @Chichiray : The 'README' page states that "It works passably on Ruby, PHP, VB, and Awk and a decent subset of Perl and Ruby, but, because of commenting conventions, doesn't work on Smalltalk, or CAML-like languages." - - So, there's definitely scope for some betterment. | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 4:23 | comment | added | user138231 | Maybe it just wasn't updated because nothing needs to be updated :) | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 3:16 | vote | accept | its_me | ||
| Mar 23, 2012 at 3:02 | comment | added | Shog9 | Cody pretty much answered this: there's really no reason to switch on a whim, especially considering the time invested in integrating Prettify. But you should also consider that this is a bit of code that needs to be both small and extremely fast - it runs on every page, and some pages have... A lot of code on them. Locking up someone's browser for a few extra features won't fly. | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 2:51 | vote | accept | its_me | ||
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| Mar 23, 2012 at 2:49 | history | edited | its_me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2012 at 1:21 | answer | added | Cody Gray - on strike | timeline score: 19 | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 1:10 | comment | added | mowwwalker | I have a slight hunch that a dev from Stackoverflow might have worked on Prettify and that they might find this a bit insulting. | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 1:07 | history | asked | its_me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |