[geeklog-devel] Handling of exceptionally longlinesthatbreakthevisual flow of the page

[Blank, Jessica]

I understand your reticence to enforce a solution that would anger many
users. Nevertheless, I must ask:

Is there EVER a situation where it is desirable that the layout of the
entire page be broken? In other words, is it ever desirable that, rather
than there being a scrolly box around a story, that the entire PAGE have
to be scrolled horizontally to read everything (and the Upcoming Events
sidebar on the right would get entirely shoved off of the page, and
you'd have to scroll horizontally even to see it... This has happened to
us on our site when large nonbreaking lines were present in front-page
stories!)

There are two ways to solve the 'large nonbreaking lines' problem: Have
a scrolly box around the story in question, or have a scrolly box around
THE ENTIRE PAGE.

Which is preferable?



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Michael
Jervis
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:50 PM
To: Geeklog Development
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Handling of exceptionally
longlinesthatbreakthevisual flow of the page

Jessica,

I think what Rob was suggesting was using Operator AI.

So, we already have [code] and now [raw] tags in stories for
pre-formatted stuff. Author's putting stuff that they need to auto
scroll would have to enter in the HTML Story mode:

<div class="dealwithmynbspsplease">
</div>

And the dealwithmynbspsplease class would be defined in your style for
your theme.

At least, I think that's what Rob was suggesting. He may have been
suggesting a [magicwrapping] tag of course.

Again, as your issue can be resolved to your satisfaction for your site
with adding CSS to your theme, I'd suggest that's the best solution
given a Geeklog Enforced solution appears to immediately cause problems
for other people

Mike

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Blank, Jessica
<Jessica.Blank at mtvnmix.com> wrote:
> Doing it this way would introduce a significant amount of complexity.
>  How would you detect 'the code snippet'? How would Geeklog know where

> the div starts and where it ends?
>
>  Without strong AI, I don't think a solution that automagically and  
> intelligently detects segments of code containing large lines and 
> wraps  them in <div> ... </div> is possible. The only way is to either

> set  overflow-x properties on the entire story, or nothing at all... 
> Unless I  missed something?
>
>
>  --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 12:25 PM
>  To: Geeklog Development
>  Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Handling of exceptionally long  
> linesthatbreakthevisual flow of the page
>
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Blank, Jessica wrote:
>
>  > set 'overlfow-x' to 'auto' on the .story-body class. :)
>
>  That wouldn't necessarily work -- I don't want the entire body set to

> overflow, just the code snippet. Example:
>
>  http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080305012955463
>
>  I wouldn't want that whole story to gain a scroll bar just due to the

> code snippet. That's why I prefer the <div> solution, so it isolates 
> the  longer lines.
>
>  -rob.
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