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 1P1O30-0002AH-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:40:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FA97E0AED; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com (mail-qy0-f174.google.com [209.85.216.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6ED3E0AED for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk36 with SMTP id 36so2050675qyk.19 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:39:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=53huI87lZ3QjrvN/Swtt3fLUvjjVcji5/00tjIwvEiQ=; b=J7TjEp1aa70qps4JW/a1ZGebV3gbXgcL2ecZ+ojP1240qYy+R+fixFBn5OSkTFi7br LvQTteJNB6pYvh8LW2OkISWB9bOZ9sda8PK0TPKJoam7PGATWldumjHLXKI1SZjTk+14 DPE+CL0dHEoCND8qzzvcu3eE10xbnieDlpbmQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VD7DUrE4ukDFCCLhHl4edvPMKxlCwRYcrzjY8QzOf8baz/Eg0x3Tg4Go0A55pm2HLQ 1nDSP+KxMVInVOIsKU/14JIswTUVgV23ac56ZiUSVjxpfzUBoTh3ZbZqs29yicuCEdbC Tpov5bjinIPIxO+hXtrC7nGCTeL0+yd+9YPXU= 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 Received: by 10.229.73.208 with SMTP id r16mr2973794qcj.158.1285871977143; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.96.194 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:39:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:39:35 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages From: Darren Kirby To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b9a172aa-3e15-40ae-b2db-ec463d6abd37 X-Archives-Hash: fc73a1a930a93982f68f3a0e755794dd On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards > 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: >> >> =A0http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=3D1&chap= =3D2 >> > > 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. > > Anyway, I understand your point. > > - Mark > > 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. 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. D -- Support the mob or mysteriously disappear... I'm on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badcomputer/