[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki formatting for wide browsers

Ian Woollard ian.woollard at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 11:09:34 UTC 2007


On 28/09/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/27/07, Jens Frank <jf at 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.


I have absolutely no idea whether this is technically possible, but ideally
all formatting would be related to font size. Presumably the user sets the
font to a comfortable size for them, that tells you how good or bad their
eyes are, and so you would want to scale up all images proportionately.

Steve
>

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