On ĵaŭ, 2002-06-13 at 14:29, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
If it does break your browser, let me know in gory detail--your OS, your browser and version, the page you display (KQ gave me a screen capture--that's perfect).
Looks and works fine in Mozilla 1.1alpha/Linux and Konqueror 3.0.1. At last, free of nasty tables, thankyouthankyou!... but there's just one problem.
If the window is not vertically tall enough, the sidebar doesn't fit and there's no way to scroll it to get to the last few items. The exact necessary height will depend on the font and font size, and the number of items in the sidebar can further vary depending on context.
Here's my Mozilla sized to fit an 800x600 screen (don't laugh, there are people still using this resolution every day! My own mother only recently broke the 800x600 habit by buying a 1280x1024 LCD monitor... which she runs at 1024x768. Sigh...): http://leuksman.com/misc/wikishot.png Admittedly, the Mozilla interface takes up a lot of extra room. But the sidebar on this page is about the shortest you're likely to find it, so I'm fudging in the right direction.
I can make it fit by changing the font size: http://leuksman.com/misc/wikishot2.png But it's not legible anymore.
Even at 1024x768, it's pushing it at the default font size: http://leuksman.com/misc/wikishot3.png
Considering that the full wikipedia sidebar (including sysop tools and "this user's edits" this can come to about 40 lines of text) barely fits on my screen at 1280x1024 -- _after_ I scroll down -- I must say I'm a little skeptical about a non-scrollable sidebar.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)