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My best guess would be that the check is performed on the HTML representation of the post. In the database, two representations are stored. The first is the markdown representation as you typed it,...
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#3: Post edited
by
Taeir
·
2022-10-25T17:28:07Z (about 2 years ago)
- My best guess would be that the check is performed on the HTML representation of the post. In the database, two representations are stored. The first is the markdown representation as you typed it, and the second is the HTML representation.
- In HTML, a lot of the lines would get some extra characters, for example a header like `# Test` becomes `<h1>Test</h1>` and a list of items changes too:
- ```markdown
- * a
- * b
- * c
- ```
- changes into
- ```html
- <ul>
- <li>a</li>
- <li>b</li>
- <li>c</li>
- </ul>
- ```
This could explain the count you see being a few thousand characters shorter than what QPixel tells you.- That said, I don't think this was taken into account when setting the limit. Perhaps a larger limit would make more sense (or perhaps it should be checked on both). Programmatically, I don't believe there is a specific reason for putting the limit at 30.000, and a bigger limit should potentially be considered (and the limits should differ between the markdown and the html to avoid this issue). The maximum for the way things are currently stored is roughly 65.500 characters, so there is room to up the limit.
- My best guess would be that the check is performed on the HTML representation of the post. In the database, two representations are stored. The first is the markdown representation as you typed it, and the second is the HTML representation.
- In HTML, a lot of the lines would get some extra characters, for example a header like `# Test` becomes `<h1>Test</h1>` and a list of items changes too:
- ```markdown
- * a
- * b
- * c
- ```
- changes into
- ```html
- <ul>
- <li>a</li>
- <li>b</li>
- <li>c</li>
- </ul>
- ```
- This could explain the count you see being a few thousand characters shorter than what QPixel reports when checking for the limit.
- That said, I don't think this was taken into account when setting the limit. Perhaps a larger limit would make more sense (or perhaps it should be checked on both). Programmatically, I don't believe there is a specific reason for putting the limit at 30.000, and a bigger limit should potentially be considered (and the limits should differ between the markdown and the html to avoid this issue). The maximum for the way things are currently stored is roughly 65.500 characters, so there is room to up the limit.
#2: Post edited
by
Taeir
·
2022-10-25T17:26:49Z (about 2 years ago)
- My best guess would be that the check is performed on the HTML representation of the post. In the database, two representations are stored. The first is the markdown representation as you typed it, and the second is the HTML representation.
- In HTML, a lot of the lines would get some extra characters, for example a header like `# Test` becomes `<h1>Test</h1>` and a list of items changes too:
- ```markdown
- * a
- * b
- * c
- ```
- changes into
- ```html
- <ul>
- <li>a</li>
- <li>b</li>
- <li>c</li>
- </ul>
- ```
- This could explain the count you see being a few thousand characters shorter than what QPixel tells you.
That said, I don't think this was taken into account when setting the limit. Perhaps a larger limit would make more sense (or perhaps it should be checked on both). Programmatically, I don't believe there is a specific reason for putting the limit at 30.000, and a bigger limit should potentially be considered. The maximum for the way things are currently stored is roughly 65.500 characters, so there is room to up the limit.
- My best guess would be that the check is performed on the HTML representation of the post. In the database, two representations are stored. The first is the markdown representation as you typed it, and the second is the HTML representation.
- In HTML, a lot of the lines would get some extra characters, for example a header like `# Test` becomes `<h1>Test</h1>` and a list of items changes too:
- ```markdown
- * a
- * b
- * c
- ```
- changes into
- ```html
- <ul>
- <li>a</li>
- <li>b</li>
- <li>c</li>
- </ul>
- ```
- This could explain the count you see being a few thousand characters shorter than what QPixel tells you.
- That said, I don't think this was taken into account when setting the limit. Perhaps a larger limit would make more sense (or perhaps it should be checked on both). Programmatically, I don't believe there is a specific reason for putting the limit at 30.000, and a bigger limit should potentially be considered (and the limits should differ between the markdown and the html to avoid this issue). The maximum for the way things are currently stored is roughly 65.500 characters, so there is room to up the limit.
#1: Initial revision
by
Taeir
·
2022-10-25T17:25:01Z (about 2 years ago)
My best guess would be that the check is performed on the HTML representation of the post. In the database, two representations are stored. The first is the markdown representation as you typed it, and the second is the HTML representation. In HTML, a lot of the lines would get some extra characters, for example a header like `# Test` becomes `<h1>Test</h1>` and a list of items changes too: ```markdown * a * b * c ``` changes into ```html <ul> <li>a</li> <li>b</li> <li>c</li> </ul> ``` This could explain the count you see being a few thousand characters shorter than what QPixel tells you. That said, I don't think this was taken into account when setting the limit. Perhaps a larger limit would make more sense (or perhaps it should be checked on both). Programmatically, I don't believe there is a specific reason for putting the limit at 30.000, and a bigger limit should potentially be considered. The maximum for the way things are currently stored is roughly 65.500 characters, so there is room to up the limit.