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OFF-TOPIC but relevantOFF-TOPIC but relevantPosted Aug 17, 2008 20:44 UTC (Sun) by janfrode (subscriber, #244)In reply to: OFF-TOPIC but relevant by corbet Parent article: An update on Fedora's "issues"
Another nuisance is the lack of automatic/sensible linewrapping in comments. All the articles are quite easy to read on my cellphone's browser (Nokia E71), but comments are typically displayed with horrendously long lines, forcing lots of horizontal scrolling.
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OFF-TOPIC but relevant Posted Aug 18, 2008 10:52 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] I agree, the text width should depend on the width of the browser and the size of the font, unless it's plain text being reproduced verbatim (like a raw e-mail). Horizontal scrollbars are annoying even on a desktop browser. On the other hand I think mobile browsers should work around this, which is hardly a unique issue to LWN. LWN pages look fine on Opera Mini, on my mobile phone.
OFF-TOPIC but relevant Posted Aug 18, 2008 11:14 UTC (Mon) by janfrode (subscriber, #244) [Link] In opera mini I can read about 40 characters before I need to scroll. Your comment used more than 90 characters per line. So more than two pages to scroll sideways back and forth for every line to read.I try to optimize it by reading two lines at the time, but it gets confusing :-) I posted this as "HTML" instead of "Plain text". wonder if that will make any difference..
OFF-TOPIC but relevant Posted Aug 18, 2008 15:37 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] Yep it does.. The parent to your post has his comment in 'pre' tags. Yours uses regular HTML formatting. Its very noticeable in the Comments RSS feed..
OFF-TOPIC but relevant Posted Aug 18, 2008 16:01 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] FWIW, the problems with the current formatting of "plain text" comments are well understood; it's on my list to do something smarter. But the previous attempt (which tended to render as a bunch of long-line/short-line pairs) wasn't very nice either. I'll probably end up doing something simpler which will not try so hard to preserve formatting in the plain text mode.
OFF-TOPIC but relevant Posted Aug 18, 2008 15:39 UTC (Mon) by janfrode (subscriber, #244) [Link] Yes, my "HTML"-posting above was perfectly readable on my cellphone.
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