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On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby <bulliver@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards |
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>> <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are |
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>>> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I |
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>>> wouldn't swear to that). |
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>>> For example, look at this page: |
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>>> |
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>>> ?http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 |
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>>> |
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>> I'll admit that a couple of times I've found this frustrating but not |
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>> enough that I'd ask anyone to change things. |
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>> I think the frustration, candidly, is that the web page programming |
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>> doesn't allow me to narrow the page as much as I might like and still |
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>> read the text. Sometimes I just want the browser to cover 1/2 the |
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>> screen, so that might be 600 pixels or so. Or maybe this is a Firefox |
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>> thing, not sure. |
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> OK, well this is getting weird because that is exactly the behavior I |
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> am seeing from both firefox and konqueror...it would appear I'm the |
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> only one? |
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> To be absolutely clear: When I resize the windows the text reformats |
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> itself on the fly from wide short paragraphs to narrow long |
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> paragraphs. |
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That only happens for me on pages that don't have any literal |
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(listing?) blocsk with light-blue backgrounds. |
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> No horizontal scroll bar which I agree is beyond annoying. This is |
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> the behavior I see from pretty much all well-designed web pages, and |
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> I rather thought it was default. |
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The stuff in the light-blue blocks can't be wrapped/reformatted, so |
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when you narrow the window so that it's not wide enough for any of the |
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light-blue blocks on the page, you _should_ get a scroll bar. Do |
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those light-blue blocks get reformatted for you? Or do they just get |
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clipped with way scroll-right and see them? |
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However, even you need to use the scrollbar to see the right-hand-end |
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of a light-blue block, I think the normal paragraphs should reformat |
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so they stay visible. |
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I know that can be done, because the web pages I create with asciidoc |
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behave that way. Letting the width of the text blocks for any given |
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page be determined by the width of the command-line examlples doesn't |
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make sense to me. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I just had a NOSE |
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at JOB!! |
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