This should be fixed now (see #309).
Kurt, if you are still having problems you can re-open the issue.

The comment box won't resize while I'm typing in 
it, but 
will if I click away from 
it and return.

What I just did above was to click on the Title field, then 
the Nosy List, and repeated several times.  That caused the 
Change Note box to narrow in increments by about 1/3 its 
earlier width, causing the text to wrap and extra cr to be 
added, even though the text would easily fix in the resized 
field without changing the original wrapping. Once the field 
is narrowed, the situation is stable. 

The browser is apparently inserting extra CR in the pre block 
when that happens.  I typed the first paragraph w/o returns.

I'm with you at this point - it's probably a browser issue.  
Right now, I'm running Opera 9.02 Build 434 on Linux.

As far as my last comment on issue5559, that's my error - I 
had my bookmark panel set a little wide and the <pre> blocks 
wrapped.  Strictly a local display issue, the 'extra' cr 
weren't in the webpage itself, so ignore that last comment.

I'll check this on Linux with a later version of Opera.

> What I see is the size of the comment box and the frames changing as I work on 
> the bug.  If I just type into the comment box and submit, there's no problem. 
> But if I type and then make entries in, say, the Nosy List, or switch to 
> another tab to check something and come back, I see frames resizing.

Do they resize as you type, or do they resize only when you submit changes?

> When that happens, the comment wrapping get screwed because 
> there are hard cr inserted.

By whom? Did you hit cr yourself?

> Right now I'm using Opera 9.64 on XP Home Sp 3 and not seeing the problem 
> entering this particular Issue277.  I usually use an older version of Opera on 
> various Linux distros.  The key thing to look for is frames resizing. With my 
> current setup, I can't make them do that.

Neither can I, with firefox (i.e. the frames don't resize only by
switching tabs). Sounds like a browser bug to me.

> But I'm not alone, see Terry Reedy's msg on the referenced page or several 
> people having problems at
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue5559

Can you kindly refer to the specific message? I can't see any complaints
about the tracker in this report.

What I see is the size of the comment box and the frames changing as I work on 
the bug.  If I just type into the comment box and submit, there's no problem. 
But if I type and then make entries in, say, the Nosy List, or switch to 
another tab to check something and come back, I see frames resizing.  When that 
happens, the comment wrapping get screwed because there are hard cr inserted.

Right now I'm using Opera 9.64 on XP Home Sp 3 and not seeing the problem 
entering this particular Issue277.  I usually use an older version of Opera on 
various Linux distros.  The key thing to look for is frames resizing. With my 
current setup, I can't make them do that.

But I'm not alone, see Terry Reedy's msg on the referenced page or several 
people having problems at

http://bugs.python.org/issue5559

Kurt B. Kaiser reports problems with text wrapping in the comment box[1][2].
Needs confirmation.


[1] http://bugs.python.org/msg85319
[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue2704