{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/170","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/170/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/170/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/170/events","html_url":"https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/170","id":31762200,"number":170,"title":"pre { tab-size: 4 }","user":{"login":"Rich-Harris","id":1162160,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1162160?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris","html_url":"https://github.com/Rich-Harris","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rich-Harris/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":50,"created_at":"2014-04-17T21:04:25Z","updated_at":"2015-06-02T22:03:38Z","closed_at":null,"body":"For some unfathomable reason, browsers render tabs as 8 spaces. Even among the minority of developers who agree that [tabs > spaces](http://lea.verou.me/2012/01/why-tabs-are-clearly-superior/), I've yet to find anyone who thinks that makes sense.\r\n\r\nHappily, [most browsers](http://caniuse.com/#search=tab-size) allow you to set the tab width with the CSS `tab-size` property. Adding something like the following to the CSS used on github.com and gist.github.com would make code previews much more readable:\r\n\r\n```css\r\npre {\r\n  -moz-tab-size: 4;\r\n  tab-size: 4;\r\n}\r\n```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/comments/108111900","html_url":"https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/170#issuecomment-108111900","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/170","id":108111900,"user":{"login":"alexmingoia","id":1112718,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1112718?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia","html_url":"https://github.com/alexmingoia","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexmingoia/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-02T22:03:38Z","updated_at":"2015-06-02T22:03:38Z","body":"Reading it from `.editorconfig` does not make sense. The whole point of tabs is so that I can set my own preference to view everything."}}