Le 09/03/2017 à 15:58, Nicholas Sielicki via aur-dev a écrit :

> On Sun, 2016-03-06 at 22:09 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Every now and then, someone will post a huge dump (log, error messages,
>> etc.) to the AUR comments. Besides being usually useless, those comments
>> force everyone to scroll for a while before getting to the next comment.
>>
>> What do you guys think about adding something like this to limit the
>> vertical space taken by such comments?
>>
>>> #news div p {
>>>   max-height: 10em;
>>>   overflow: auto;
>>> }
>> If the idea is approved, I can send a proper patch ;]
> About one year ago this change was proposed and committed to limit the height
> of comments on AUR pages.  (If you're looking for it in your inbox, this post
> took place on the aur-general list, not on aur-dev.)
>
> I'm posting because I find this behavior more annoying than helpful.

From my POV, it’s both. Because it has pros and cons.

> Take a look at the following AUR page as an example:
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-next-git/
>
> The biggest issue that I have is that if a comment is truncated in height,
> there's no way to expand the comment such that the whole comment is visible.

That’s the real issue, not the fact they are truncated.

> At least for me, seeing only a small portion of the comment at a time makes 
> it much harder to fully grok, particularly when it comes to things like logs, 
> error messages, patches, etc.

Those should rather be pasted on pasting services though, but still…

> Beyond that, try loading that AUR page on your phone, or try navigating the
> comments with one of the browser plugins for vim-bindings. On my phone, it's
> not obvious at first glance that the truncated comments are individually
> scrollable.  I believe that multiple vertical scrollbars on a page is not a
> great experience in any browser.

Agree.

> lfleischer suggested (on the thread quoted above) that one potiential solution
> could be a link towards the bottom of long comments that ties into javascript,
> where one could click to expand it. I think that's a much better solution--
> provided that the full contents of the comment would still be accessibile in a
> browser without javascript. eg: page is served with fully visible comments,
> long comments are hidden by javascript after it loads.

That looks like a real solution, and what I was going to answer as a
proposition after starting reading your post. But it’s already here. :)

> Personally, I think the best solution would be to just revert the change
> entirely. I disagree with the notion that long comments are "usually useless".

Disagree, I think the AUR is cluttered with useless comments, but this
might really depends on which packages you make use of.

> I think that more often than not, the opposite is actually true-- longer
> comments typically are the ones that contain fixes/patches for broken AUR
> pkgbuilds.

Like I said above, those should belong to paste services.

> Not to mention, comments on aurweb are already paginated after 10
> comments-- that alone keeps the page (relatively) short.

Not if someone do what you says, i.e. pasting it’s full log of trying to
build whatever program.

Regards,
Bruno

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