Re: [Fedora Infrastructure] #1438: Wiki CSS surpresses horizontal scrollbar

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#1438: Wiki CSS surpresses horizontal scrollbar
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 Reporter:  till             |        Owner:  webmaster
     Type:  bug              |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  major            |    Milestone:           
Component:  Web Application  |      Version:           
 Severity:  Normal           |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:                   |  
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Changes (by mmcgrath):

  * owner:  santosp,ricky,mmcgrath => webmaster

Comment:

 Anyone on the web team want to assign this to them and do it?

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[Fedora Infrastructure] #1438: Wiki CSS surpresses horizontal scrollbar

[Craig Thomas]

Hi there,

What are we wanting to do? get the whole table scrolling? or the cells
themselves (6800px wide table :)

Like this:

http://craigt.fedorapeople.org/fedora_css.html

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Craig


On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Fedora Infrastructure
<trac(a)fedorahosted.org&gt; wrote:
>  #1438: Wiki CSS surpresses horizontal scrollbar
>  -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
>   Reporter:  till             |        Owner:  webmaster
>      Type:  bug              |       Status:  new
>   Priority:  major            |    Milestone:
>  Component:  Web Application  |      Version:
>   Severity:  Normal           |   Resolution:
>   Keywords:                   |
>  -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
>  Changes (by mmcgrath):
>
>   * owner:  santosp,ricky,mmcgrath => webmaster
>
>  Comment:
>
>   Anyone on the web team want to assign this to them and do it?
>
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[Fedora Infrastructure] #1438: Wiki CSS surpresses horizontal scrollbar

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2009-06-04 10:19:05 AM, Craig Thomas wrote:
>  What are we wanting to do? get the whole table scrolling? or the
> cells
>  themselves (6800px wide table :)
>  
>  Like this:
>  
>  http://craigt.fedorapeople.org/fedora_css.html 
Not saying that the wide table issue
doesn't need to be fixed, but is an
enormous table really the best way to format these response?  Even with
a proper scroll bar, it's painful for me to read because I have to move
to the bottom of the table to scroll.  Also, when I'm in the middle of
the table, it's really easy to loose track of whose response I'm
reading.  

My suggestion for now would be to put these in separate pages
per-candidate.  That way, a reader would just have to look at the
address or title bar to see whose response they're reading (also, the
wide table issue is a very non-trivial CSS problem that's not easy to
fix given the way that our particular layout works, so there's no
guarantee that we'll be able to fix this in short period of time.)

Thanks,
Ricky

[Fedora Infrastructure] #1438: Wiki CSS surpresses horizontal scrollbar

[Till Maas]

On Thu June 4 2009, Ricky Zhou wrote:

>  Not saying that the wide table issue doesn't need to be fixed,
> but is an
>  enormous table really the best way to format these response?  Even with
>  a proper scroll bar, it's painful for me to read because I have to move
>  to the bottom of the table to scroll.  Also, when I'm in the middle of
>  the table, it's really easy to loose track of whose response I'm
>  reading. 
I agree that having the scrollbar only at the bottom of the table does not 
help that much. For the problem to know who's  collomn it is, I thought about 
repeating the name of the candidates every other line.

>  My suggestion for now would be to put these in separate pages
>  per-candidate.  That way, a reader would just have to look at the
>  address or title bar to see whose response they're reading (also, the
>  wide table issue is a very non-trivial CSS problem that's not easy to
>  fix given the way that our particular layout works, so there's no
>  guarantee that we'll be able to fix this in short period of time.) 
For me it is more useful to search for the interesting questions and then 
directly compare the answers of the candidates.

Regards
Till