Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

[Dale]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby<bulliver@×××××.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards
>> <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I can understand that things like example code blocks or sample
>>> command input/output blocks might need to be wide enough to require
>>> horizontal scrolling of a browser window, but normal text paragraphs
>>> with 160 characters per line?
>>>
>> I'm not seeing a problem here. Sure, the lines are long but my screen
>> is large and my resolution is high. A quick play with firefox and konq
>> shows that the text reformats itself quite elegantly when you resize
>> your browser window to say, 2/3 of screen width.
>>
> I'm using firefox, and the text doesn't reformat for me.  I just end
> up with a change in the size of the horizontal scrollbar.  Are you
> sure you're looking at the same pages I was talking about?
>
>    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
>

The link above works fine although a bit wide.  No horizontal scrollbar.

>    http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2
>

This one has a horizontal scrollbar but only adjust about a half inch or 
so.   It almost fits.


>
>> I think that's a better solution than imposing some arbitrary line
>> length on everyone no matter their screen size and resolution.
>>
> Yes, that would be fine if, in fact, it worked.  But it doesn't.
>
>

What I notice is this, if I narrow Seamonkey, the horizontal scroll bar 
appears even when ti should be able to shorten the line lengths and fit 
everything on the page.   I don't claim to know much about web design so 
I don't know if this is the code on the page or the way Seamonkey is 
choosing to display it.

Dale

:-)  :-)