21 Oct
2014
21 Oct
'14
11:04 p.m.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:07:22 -0500
"Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
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Hi E. Liddell,
Not sure if there's anything you can do about this but I was browsing the
TDE site on iOS and got the attached glitch.
Is there any way to force the horizontal scrollbar to show up in this case
instead of overlaying the left hand menu bar on top of the text? This is
one of the very few cases where horizontal scrolling is preferable to what
we have now.
There's no way I know of to get a scrollbar in, no, but it's possible to make
that page better-behaved at narrow widths with a couple of tweaks. Since
webdev has moved on from this version of the site, I'll explain them here.
First, add white-space:pre-line; to the style for the PRE element in the
main stylesheet. This will allow the fixed-size blocks of text in the top-
posting example to word-wrap themselves if there isn't enough space
for them. (This is one of the most obscure style attributes in CSS, I
suspect--it took me a while to find it.)
Secondly, liberally salt the displayed list email addresses (optionally
also the archive URLs) with the <WBR> tag, which will allow line-breaks
to optionally take place at those locations.
trinity-devel-<WBR>unsubscribe(a)lists.<WBR>pearsoncomputing.net
can become
trinity-devel-
unsubscribe@lists.
pearsoncomputing.net
which takes up much less horizontal space than the entire thing without
line-breaks. The catch is, I'm not sure iOS's browser (Mobile Safari?)
understands this tag--Konqueror just ignores it. Still, it can't hurt.
E. Liddell