From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P1O2n-00027Z-QI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46F87E0AEC; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AF5E0AEC for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so1265683eyf.40 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:39:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LkpTMAgmcVk6UkOLjZQau8oQUS3qqH7eZXgBuCiLtv8=; b=OLniNFEGLLp8WxRTrMVQ637BQV4maZ2UeY2avvlWF/5VpMOqV35zEiyO+q+DzJLj1r T7MhyYrYDBG8xOMJsY4ZwwFoSaGTMw0enN9XzaDdbxwyXKpVtaokAkw3GNfOqcJmHBSv B/SJZlKY7Ti8QwYTRG6jjxm0ZL0KopNy0hDpM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=be6K0WlO2iOsTlFoTGIJYm6BsD/hS76h4UD+vDrq/b022vLvmmog1a2J9yw9u635X5 rHeHTjnRpB5FJXTmL7aNysiE5wz1/Ix5o/1Iej/vPdH7xACmpkDulhhw+/ScO6OKhFog 4dNikoy9bG+t9gyDpfSYC3HNrz5qAc0Heo4ps= Received: by 10.213.7.7 with SMTP id b7mr3435663ebb.30.1285871978297; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-116-24.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.116.24]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z55sm253254eeh.3.2010.09.30.11.39.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CA4D967.4000900@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:39:35 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100920 Gentoo/2.0.8-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 64c0868d-8e95-4a7f-ba1f-16a50da66e6d X-Archives-Hash: 49d7005bea9b11fef22ceac541822fe3 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards >> 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 :-) :-)