Pet peeve: ridiculous textarea dimensions
Yesterday I had to submit a ticket on Blackboard’s support site. Assuming they want you to explain the problem, why do they provide such a tiny textarea to type your response? To make matters worse, I pasted several lines of a log file in the box, which made it need a scrollbar to scroll left-right. Now instead of being able to view four or five lines I can only view two!
At the other extreme, I was playing with a local install of Wikka Wiki (cool, btw). Its textarea box was set to a width of 100% and a height of 500 pixels–huge! That textarea was so large it didn’t completely fit on my laptop screen, meaning if I wrote a long piece, I might have to scroll in two places (browser and textarea). It was easy enough to go in the code (edit.php) and find where this was defined, so I changed the settings to what I consider a more reasonable size–75% width x 200 pixels high.
