[geeklog-devel] Handling of exceptionally long lines thatbreakthevisual flow of the page

[Blank, Jessica]

Well, yes. And that's what I've proposed (and am proposing presently).
:) I have previously posited on this list that the best idea would be to
set 'overlfow-x' to 'auto' on the .story-body class. :)

I wouldn't want my lines broken up either!

--Jessica 

-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Rob
Griffiths
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:47 AM
To: Geeklog Development
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Handling of exceptionally long lines
thatbreakthevisual flow of the page

On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Blank, Jessica wrote:

> chip on their shoulder, there's no reason to allow them to ruin the 
> site with one post :)

The flip side of that argument is also true: I don't want Geeklog
breaking up long lines that I intentionally created that way. I post
lots of code snippets -- bookmarklets, Perl scripts, etc. Some have long
lines, some (bookmarklets and perl) even have long lines without any
spaces. Those lines need to remain unbroken so they can be copied and
pasted.

As such, I strongly vote against any sort of forced-line-break solution
unless it's easily turned off. For posting such things intentionally, a
<div> with a scrolling text box works wonders.

-rob.
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