The default edit box <textarea> size has always been 70x15 chars. Should we change that, and make it larger (of course!) per default?

How far could we go to don't mess up existing layouts? Eventually 80x25 in the future? -- 80x25 is milkys preferred screen size (=like the typical *LinuxConsole)

jbw: Can it be made to be a percentage of the screen size, or even have an option to just break out of the layout for editing and use the full area the browser makes available for editing pages.

milky: I don't think this is possible. But that's in fact a HTML problem and eventually could be changed using CSS. You could try to apply a style setting like:

  .wiki.edit  textarea  { width:90%; }

But I'm not sure if this would work (and then in all browsers).

However making the edit box as large as the screen may even not be a good idea, because it complicated navigation down to the [save] button then.