Ron <theotiwii@earthlink.net> writes:
I swear, kids designing pages in HTML editors are producing more appealing results!
Whoops! Your rant broke loose :) Don't forget it's easy to produce one pretty page, a lot harder to ensure optimal display of all pages under all conditions. Just a few more datapoints on http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG/ComponentsAndInterfaces.stx - I confirm that in a "standard"-width browser window - that is, about 2/3 of my XGA screen - NS 4.7 requires scrolling and mozilla 0.9.5 does. Konqueror 2.2 doesn't, cleverly enough. "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com> writes:
Note that lots of pages on Zope.org make the presumption that you're browsing at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher. It's
I think that's almost never a reasonable presumption, alas. In the case of lines wider than the window, which can't be wrapped for whatever reason, I think it's perfectly reasonable for them to go off-screen and require horizontal scrolling. However, what frequently happens is that the entire page happily fills the new width and so now *every* line requires scrolling. This is what's particularly annoying, when you have to scroll to see things that you know your browser is perfectly capable of wrapping. I think this is mostly when the text is within a table layout. Most zope.org pages use a table layout and are vulnerable for this reason. I'm guessing slightly here. An easy solution is to not put the main page text in a table. This would mean giving up the left sidebar, typically putting menus & links along the top instead. This would also help the width shortage as well as improve page rendering speed; I think many sites have made this move for the same reasons. And as readers of this list over the last few years know, I wouldn't miss the zope.org Blue Zone too much. -Simon