I agree with Richard and the others. This is a bad change. The narrow display converts text from a few wider lines into many short lines. I, and I believe many others, find this harder to read and comprehend.
But code blocks are made many times worse by the narrower format. When text is too wide, you just wrap the text into many more shorter lines. But, as Richard notes, a code block gets a scroll bar. That means you cannot see the whole code
segment at once. Which means it is virtually impossible to comprehend the code without cutting and pasting it into some other program.
As an example of the difference, look at the following, both show the same thread, one in the new narrow format and one in the old wider format. The code in the old format is far easier to work with.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/d6bd21c3-3b0b-4362-887f-4381842c0896
and
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/d6bd21c3-3b0b-4362-887f-4381842c0896
Please do not take this as an argument for automatically wrapping long lines of code into many shorter ones. Often the formatting of the code (including blank spaces or tabs) is to make the code more readable. Auto wrapping of the lines would
destroy the formatting which I and others intentionally put in the code to make it more comprehensible.
Please go back to the old format.
Tom
