1. Forum wrapping
Is there a way to change the way that the forum displays? Right now, if I hold
down the cntl-key and scroll the mouse down I will increase the font size. Once
I have increased the font size to the point where the text no longer fits, I
would expect it to wrap so that nothing falls off the right side of the window.
Instead, it does not wrap and in order to see the balance of the information I
must scroll the window to the right.
See the story frame at the following link for an example of virtually unlimited
wrapping:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up
I am sure it would make life easier for more than just me.
Mike
2. Re: Forum wrapping
Mike777 wrote:
> Is there a way to change the way that the forum displays? Right now, if I
> hold
> down the cntl-key and scroll the mouse down I will increase the font size.
> Once I have increased the font size to the point where the text no longer
> fits,
> I would expect it to wrap so that nothing falls off the right side of the
> window.
> Instead, it does not wrap and in order to see the balance of the information
> I must scroll the window to the right.
>
> See the story frame at the following link for an example of virtually
> unlimited
> wrapping:
>
> <a
> href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up">http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up</a>
>
> I am sure it would make life easier for more than just me.
There are a lot of complicated issues
in displaying forum messages. I'd be very reluctant to
start messing around with it again.
Basically everything is inside a big PRE ... END PRE
HTML section, so the line breaks specified by the author
are maintained. I think that simplifies things a lot,
especially on a programming forum.
I'm sorry if it is inconvenient for some people,
especially those with eyesight limitations.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
3. Re: Forum wrapping
- Posted by Mike777 <anon4321 at gmail.??m>
Apr 28, 2008
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Last edited Apr 29, 2008
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> Mike777 wrote:
> > Instead, it does not wrap and in order to see the balance of the
> > information
> > I must scroll the window to the right.
> >
> There are a lot of complicated issues
> in displaying forum messages.
Understood.
> I'd be very reluctant to
> start messing around with it again.
> Basically everything is inside a big PRE ... END PRE
> HTML section, so the line breaks specified by the author
> are maintained. I think that simplifies things a lot,
> especially on a programming forum.
> I'm sorry if it is inconvenient for some people,
> especially those with eyesight limitations.
If I understood CSS better, I'd be suggesting an alternative. But I don't. So
I won't.
Just yet.
I'll play around with it a bit and if I hit upon something that seems to make
sense, I'll let you know.
Something tells me, though, that it is just a matter of naming the section and
then putting in a format code which indicates wrapping when the frame or window
is not large enough to display a complete line.
If, and when, I get some time to experiment, I'll let you know.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Mike
4. Re: Forum wrapping
- Posted by Kat <KAT12 at co?sahs.ne?>
Apr 28, 2008
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Last edited Apr 29, 2008
Mike777 wrote:
>
> Is there a way to change the way that the forum displays? Right now, if I
> hold
> down the cntl-key and scroll the mouse down I will increase the font size.
> Once I have increased the font size to the point where the text no longer
> fits,
> I would expect it to wrap so that nothing falls off the right side of the
> window.
> Instead, it does not wrap and in order to see the balance of the information
> I must scroll the window to the right.
>
> See the story frame at the following link for an example of virtually
> unlimited
> wrapping:
>
> <a
> href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up">http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up</a>
>
> I am sure it would make life easier for more than just me.
>
> Mike
Mike, use Proxomitron (or write something like it in Eu), set your browser to
use it (Foxfire: tools/options/network/etc), set Proxo to change <pre> to
<pHALTre> when at url *openeuphoria.org/EUforum* .
If you feel like editing the cfg file directly, the rule is:
Name = "Mike's WordWrap"
Active = TRUE
URL = "*openeuphoria.org/EUforum*"
Bounds = "<*>"
Limit = 5
Match = "*pre*"
Replace = "<pHALTre>"
That will edit the incoming page from *openeuphoria.org/EUforum* to edit the
<pre> so it won't work. The </pre> is irrelavant (altho that's irreverant to html
standards). The limit on zooming vs width is then the url in your message when
you posted, because the wordwrap won't break words, and the url is one long
"word". You can, however, also replace '?' and '&' in urls with a "? " to get
them to wrap, but that will make the url non-clickable.
Caveat: like Rob said, this will likely break things like < e u c o d e > tags,
altho you could use Proxo to reinsert <pre> there if you wish. Or you could
insert <br> at all \n and/or \n when at *openeuphoria.org/EUforum* to preserve
some formatting while still killing the <pre> tags.
And someone mentioned seeing google ads for other languages when viewing the
euphorum, you can either set pagead2.googlesyndication.com to 127.0.0.1 in your
windoze hosts file (i am sure you can do something like that in *nix), or use the
following Proxo rule:
Name = "pagead2.googlesyndication.com"
Active = TRUE
Multi = TRUE
URL = "*"
Bounds = "<*>"
Limit = 2560
Match = "*googlesyndication.com*"
Kat
5. Re: Forum wrapping
- Posted by Marco Achury <achury at can?v?net>
Apr 28, 2008
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Last edited Apr 29, 2008
I agree with KAT.
I'm now intentionally sending a very long line without type enter, to see the
results... I agree with KAT, the simpler solution, is to eliminate the <PRE>
reemplace hard return codes with <BR>. Also ROB may consider that this will make
the pages compatible with the browsers at cell phones, palms, and other
equipments with small screens.
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Marco A. Achury
Caracas, Venezuela
6. Re: Forum wrapping
Another comment about the forum:
The bottom links bar under the message.
Looking the message under thunderbird, when
I click the REPLY button, don't appear the
reply windows asking user and password, first
appear the windows for the message. In this
window the REPLY button works as expected
As I'm curious I used the option "View Source"
at thunderbird RSS entry, and at the Firefox page
and I can see you have diferent links.
Is a bug or is an intentional feature?
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Marco A. Achury
Caracas, Venezuela
