Last modified: 2012-06-26 15:11:46 UTC
The page-size warning appears on the edit box for every page above 32k, which is not all that large these days; indeed, policy has revised the point at which one should think of splitting out sections to the 50k point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size). It'd be nice if the edit warning were to follow suite, as it's annoying to be working on a page which merits more than 32k but always having to be ignoring the warning (and CSS hacks aren't any good, because what about the articles which are above 50 or 70k and genuinely are getting too large?)
The size warning is due to browsers that damage pages at this size.
Those antique browsers mentioned in [[Wikipedia:Article size]] are hardly used. There are all sorts of edge cases we could have warnings for- why must we have warnings for these?
Huge pages are hard to read over modem connections. Probably some mobile devices also don't like huge pages. My antique browser otherwise can handle it, but it won't let me add more than a few hundred bytes to such pages - if I want more I've to go through "preview". When I say huge it's pages like Village pump (tech). Let's keep the 32 KB as is for a few years.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21911 ***
