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 1P1O8Z-0003B2-9L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDDA2E0A9C; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B95E0A9C for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6293A1B4025 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.265 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.265 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.334, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eA8uPDaDyfIl for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A435C1B413C for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1O7r-00069Q-Cn for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:45:03 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:45:03 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:45:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 259f2119-398f-41cd-8856-869e0cf3bc04 X-Archives-Hash: c2b2ee9a1bdc6d2c31eabf99a6004ec4 On 2010-09-30, 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: >> >> ??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. Exactly -- I'd like to be able to narrow the browser window at least to the point where it fits entirely on the screen (and it's a 21" screen). > 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. Oddly, there are people who don't seem to see the minimum line width issue, and the paragraphs actually get re-wrapped when the browser window is changed. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Somewhere in Tenafly, at New Jersey, a chiropractor gmail.com is viewing "Leave it to Beaver"!