[thesite] need another template..

Daniel J. Cody djc at starkmedia.com
Wed Feb 28 08:50:53 CST 2001


jeff wrote:


> :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> : for sure we should ditch the sidebar, cus
> : everything is gonna be wrapped ina  <pre>
> : tag. i'd like to ditch it, but there are
> : too many things that dropping it may break..
> :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> i'd like to see us try to keep that sidebar for now.  let's ditch it as a
> last resort.
> 
> what we really need is a custom tag that will parse a message, breaking it
> into 70 character lines or less depending on where it finds a space
> (chr(32)).

for the time being, this is a totally non CF deal..this is a rewrite of the native MG
archiving shit in Python.

> another solution might be to use a really big textarea like we use for code
> snippets on thesite and include a link to target the message into a new
> window with zero formatting around it for those that wanna just read it.
> holler if you wanna go this route i've already got the solution for that in
> my head.
> 
> another thing too, the font size can probably be safely brought down a size
> as well.  that will make the lines less likely to break the design except on
> the most narrow of resolutions.

Ya think? I thought that replies were hard to read due to the low contrast and the 
<em>edness of them..

*shrug*

.djc.





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