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page layout -- horizontal scrollingpage layout -- horizontal scrollingPosted Feb 1, 2007 15:50 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289)In reply to: more thoughts by dune73 Parent article: An LWN reader survey
The only revamping that I would like to see is elimination of the ability of one comment to wreck a page through the use of long, unbroken character strings. Other sites which allow comments, and are based on HTML tables, also suffer from this bug. As it is, anyone could force the width of this page, and any HTML format comments, to reach a very annoying extreme. It is correctable either by pre-parsing comments (inserting whitespace if strings outside of < and > exceed a certain length without whitespace) or by eliminating the use of tables for displaying comments.
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page layout -- horizontal scrolling Posted Feb 1, 2007 15:52 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] I thought that problem had mostly been fixed when we started activating long URLs and shortening the text to http://long-url.com/whatever... Longer term, a better, more CSS-aware layout is clearly needed.
page layout -- horizontal scrolling Posted Feb 1, 2007 16:22 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] The article GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN) is one which now appears with a long horizontal scrollbar for me. Each line is about twice the width of my browser. Best I can tell, it comes from one plain-text URL widening one column of the table.It doesn't happen often but it is most likely to happen when there are lots of comments. It is also a method by which someone can work deliberate mischief.
page layout -- horizontal scrolling Posted Sep 11, 2007 15:37 UTC (Tue) by JLCdjinn (guest, #1905) [Link] CSS offers at least one elegant solution to this problem with the For LWN, the rule would look something like this: div.CommentBox
{
overflow: auto;
}
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