NewsBlur/blog/_posts/tumblr/2014-01-06-three-new-features-for-the-web-syntax.md

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title: 'Three new features for the web: syntax highlighting for source code, adjustable
  video widths, and footnotes'
date: '2014-01-06T12:46:00-05:00'
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- web
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A few small new features to get your first full week of the new year started off right.

### Syntax highlight for source code

![](http://static.newsblur.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/syntax%20highlighting.png)

A common feature request has been automatic syntax highlighting in blog posts. This feature uses auto-detection to highlight code. For short snippets of code, this means that they could have inaccurate highlighting, although in testing it’s not so bad to have a few words in various colors. But for any substantial amount of code, you’ll have an easier time following along with syntax highlighting.

### Video fitting

Videos from Youtube and Vimeo (and a few others) are now stretched to fit the window, resulting in bigger video previews.

### Footnotes

Previously, if you clicked the little footnote reference<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>, you would be taken to a new window. The Feed view now smoothly scrolls you to the footnote, where you can then return back to the footnote. Easy!

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1. 

Like this.&nbsp;[↩︎](#fnref:1)