Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/01/20:48:21
Larry Hall wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> On cygwin.com, there are two versions of the FAQ page. The first is
>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html> and is the direct output of texi2html.
>> The second is <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html> which is the same
>> content except the texi2html output is in a TABLE, with the standard
>> Cygwin.com navbar on the left (also a TABLE, with the width="20%"
>> attribute.)
>>
>> I don't know about you all but I find this second "faq0.html" version
>> nearly useless because there is (at least) one question that has a very
>> wide "program output" inside a PRE block tag. This causes the margin
>> width to be about twice the width of my screen. In the 'faq.html'
>> version that doesn't use tables, this is not a problem since the browser
>> renders the page sanely, i.e. everything -except- the one wide line is
>> wrapped to the actual screen width, but there is still a horizontal
>> scroll bar as that one section is wider than the rest.
>>
>> However, when this content is included in a table cell as is the case
>> with 'faq0.html', it becomes very unfriendly, since that one table cell
>> must expand its width to fit the widest element. In this case the
>> margins for the entire cell are adjusted to fit this one wide line,
>> which means that you have to scroll horizontally to read -any- answer
>> longer than a sentence or two. I can't possibly see how anyone could
>> use this page in this format and not be highly annoyed, unless they have
>> a >= 1600px width screen and/or small fonts.
First of all, these aren't tables, they are frames.
> Or don't use IE. ;-)
>
> With Mozilla, the line you indicate is the only one that scrolls off
> the right side of the page. Actually, a quick check of IE 5.5 (yeah,
> I know it's out of date but I don't use it so I don't care) shows me
> the same result. I know that doesn't help you much but...
I tried Mozilla 1.4 & IE 6.0, both render only one line past the visible
screen. Don't know what you are looking at.
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