[Theforum] Evolt redesign - user choice

[.jeff]

rudy,

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> From: rudy
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> >http://test.evolt.org/article/theforum/17/16286/
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> >support for this is spotty
>
> ayup
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> win95 ie5  there's no vertical scrollbar in them boxen
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no vertical scrollbar?  i should hope not -- that's what i was trying to
show.  ;p

the only scrollbars you should see are horizontal ones, and then only when
they're needed.

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> > how are other sites dealing with long lines of
> > <pre></pre> text?
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> break up the lines where desired, and insert a
> "continued" character (could be a 16x16 image,
> those work well)
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ok, this is definitely the "if we could do anything" solution.  i'd love to
do it but know it'll chew up a bunch of processing power for each article
display.

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> <pre>
> &lt;OBJECT
>    classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
>    codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/
> ==>     cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
>    ID=cands_intro WIDTH=290 HEIGHT=320
>    longdesc="webpage.html" accesskey="6"&gt;
> </pre>
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> note the syntax allows breaks between attribute/value
> pairs, [...]
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yes, i see that which makes it just that much more difficult to implement,
but the ultimate way to go.

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> but not within the url, [...]
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so then if there's a really long url posted it still breaks the layout?  or,
do we put some sort of cap on the width and if it overflows, it puts in a
horizontal scrollbar?

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> not a clean cut & paste operation like the textarea, but
> looks better than most textareas
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it could be a simple cut-n-paste operation though if we used a numbering
column for row numbers and placed the line continuation character in that
column and the text in a column to the right.

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> and a lot of the code we're putting into textareas
> wouldn't need the continuation character in a
> <pre>..</pre> block at all, being short enough not to
> kill the layout
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ok, but here's the problem.  since we support most any screen resolution,
where do we define the point at which a continuation character gets
inserted?  70 characters or more on a line?  40 characters or more?  the
number of characters should be somewhat related to the user's browser window
width to be most useful.

.jeff

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