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by reustle 2212 days ago
Please don't use code blocks for quoting text until HN finally fixes their css on mobile.

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Seems like it might be better to pressure HN to fix a clear bug by continuing to use this formatting though.
Arguably the bug isn't the rendering of code blocks, but using them to delineate quotes.
Maybe the bug is not having blockquotes, something that people clearly want? We're seeing a desire path of feature use.
Maybe! I shouldn't have called user behavior a bug, and I'm sympathetic to the desire path argument, but it would hold more water if code-blocks-as-quotes didn't come with such an accessibility malus, especially given the common convention of indicating quoted content with >

I do want real blockquotes, but I can work around their lack.

> italic text with > prefix works quite well?

IMHO.

You can inject your own CSS on Firefox mobile. It's also great for getting rid of popups and paywalls.
But I want HN code snippets to look like code because sometimes they're used for code.
let's not go back on works-on-IE-5 era. sites should work on the browsers that people use, not the other way around. i don't think it's fair that you got downvoted, though, your intention was good, you provided a solution.
This does not appear to be true on iOS? If it is...how?
That's because Firefox for iOS is really just a skin around Safari's WebKit-based engine, because Apple plays the evil gatekeeper on their app store and doesn't allow Firefox to use their own rendering engine. (Chrome on iOS is also effectively just a Safari wrapper.)

It's one of the many reasons I think iOS is a horrible choice for a privacy-conscious user.

Firefox for Android supports extensions.