Basecamp Design Refresh

I’m looking forward to these changes. Lots of nice, nuanced tweaks that improve overall read & scan-ability of the main pages.

That said I was bitten by a nasty little gap in the current basecamp ‘design’. Two word, SMART QUOTES. Yup they killed some work we were doing at BIJ because we had code pasted into basecamp with out being wrapped in PRE tags. The end result was some javascript dying silently because of curly quotes. Seems obvious in retrospect, but when you use the tool solely for web+application development it would be nice to have a switch to turn the darn things off so you don’t need extra tags for every message.