On 9/27/07, Jens Frank jf@mormo.org wrote:
If the line is too long for you to read it easily, just make your browser window smaller. The problem with most blogs is that they don't have a maximum column width, but a fixed one - making it really hard to read the page with small screen sizes.
Ok, apparently I wasn't sufficiently clear. I'm not asking for suggestions to improve my experience with MediaWiki - I'm wondering how we can improve MediaWiki for end-users in general.
Also, rather than making the browser itself narrow, I'm suggesting that we can take advantage of the extra width to improve layout, but without increasing linelength.
Here's some ASCII art (it was only a matter of time):
MW | Top links........... Logo | Contents | Title Links | Contents | Text text text text text | Image Links | Contents | Text text text text text | Image Links | Contents | Text text text text text | Links | Contents | | Infobox Links | Contents | Section 1 | Infobox Links | Contents | Text text text text text | Infobox Links | Contents | Text text text text text | Infobox Links | | Text text text text text | Infobox Links | | Text text text text text Links | | Text text text text text Links | | Text text text text text Links | | Text text text text text Links | | Text text text text text Links | | Text text text text text Links | | Text text text text text Links | | Text text text text text
See how now the text is totally unencumbered by contents and infobox? So we're actually benefiting from the extra browser width, rather than it being a nuisance.
Steve