Simon Michael wrote:
Whoops! Your rant broke loose :)
Ouch, you're right, sorry :-/ The problem isn't just Line Wrap, it's the whole "take it or leave it" attitude to presentation I'm feeling. Perhaps EXPERIENCED users on this list are puzzled by my admonitions since they aren't scrounging the Zope sites for HOWTO's, tutorials and the like, being EXPOSED to just how trying the process is. Okay, here is an example. The author of this page has my gratitude and praise for his/her contribution, but in my opinion Zope has failed BOTH that author AND me... Here's the page: http://cmf.zope.org/CMF/Members/beehive/ZWACKChap5.html 1. I run at 1600x1200 dpi, this page (typical of other Zope pages) requires about 1100 of those horizontal pixels to avoid scrolling EVERY SINGLE FRIGGING LINE! It's a tutorial and a HOWTO... but it takes up so much of my desktop I spend the entire experience flipping between windows, WHY on a 19" monitor at 1600x1200 am I forced to do this??? (Gerrr!) 2. Not to mention VISUAL ALACRITY! Where's the color, the captivating use of fonts, eye catching graphic highlights, nicely styled paragraphs, hypertext references, perhaps even an animated image or two?... Right, right... it's 1.1 CMF... as if THAT'S AN EXCUSE? And get this... THIS IS CLASSIC... Scroll down to Table 05.01 for a demonstration on just what it takes to modify a CMF color... Need I say more? If it were 1995 I would expect this, but the world has moved on. What... it's the author's responsibility? Go start MS Word, load any one of their templates, type "I am just a data source" and press PRINT! Does this exercise light any bulbs??? If _I_ wrote Zope... I would be sending the above author MY APOLOGIES for what I've done to their work - how many of YOU reading this page would feel either PRIDE in the presentation or would be willing to BLAME ITS AUTHOR!?! This was sent to me privately: "the issue you are talking about has _nothing_ to do with zope". What? Nothing to do with Zope? My apologies then... Let's just blame the user, the author, very convenient, very helpful, and very bound to improve Zope as a Web Publishing Platform. -Ron oh... Sorry again, Simon, for posting this on your dime... ;-/