diff --git a/examples/server/webui/src/components/MarkdownDisplay.tsx b/examples/server/webui/src/components/MarkdownDisplay.tsx
index 8ab8de655..814920a74 100644
--- a/examples/server/webui/src/components/MarkdownDisplay.tsx
+++ b/examples/server/webui/src/components/MarkdownDisplay.tsx
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export default function MarkdownDisplay({ content }: { content: string }) {
         button: (props) => (
           <CopyCodeButton {...props} origContent={preprocessedContent} />
         ),
+        // note: do not use "pre", "p" or other basic html elements here, it will cause the node to re-render when the message is being generated (this should be a bug with react-markdown, not sure how to fix it)
       }}
     >
       {preprocessedContent}
diff --git a/examples/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx b/examples/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx
index eca951edc..5565ab7bb 100644
--- a/examples/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx
+++ b/examples/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ export default function SettingDialog({
           alert(`Value for ${key} must be numeric`);
           return;
         }
+        // force conversion to number
         // @ts-expect-error this is safe
         newConfig[key] = numVal;
       } else if (mustBeBoolean) {
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ export default function SettingDialog({
   };
 
   const onChange = (key: SettKey) => (value: string | boolean) => {
+    // note: we do not perform validation here, because we may get incomplete value as user is still typing it
     setLocalConfig({ ...localConfig, [key]: value });
   };