Thank you for clearing that up.
Seems like something has changed from 7.9 to 8.0a1, though, as these posts also are written with the same browser, but doesn't wrap early (:
(2 mins later)
Okay, took a view source on both.
From my friend's 7.9 forum:
<textarea name="message" cols="57" rows="12" wrap="PHYSICAL" onSelect="storeCaret(this);" onClick="storeCaret(this);" onKeyup="storeCaret(this);">
From the source of these pages:
<textarea name="message" id="message" cols="57" rows="15" wrap="virtual">
Might be has been playing around with the source on his own