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