LillianH opened this issue on May 13, 2004 ยท 28 posts
pauljs75 posted Fri, 14 May 2004 at 2:51 AM
The edit button is a cool addition. Been long overdue. That makes me happy... Still one more thing left. Now here's a new challenge for the programmer types who work behind the scenes: fix the side-scrolling issue!
Simply put, once somebody puts a rather long link or wide format picture somewhere in a discussion it becomes impractical for some people to try reading the text. (Not everyone has the ultra-high-res widescreen monitor.) Which for most purposes makes it unreadable on the screen. The solution? 1. Make an option for preferred viewing resolution in member settings (if there isn't one already). If not set, it should default to XGA (1040x768) as it seems the most common. 2. Force cells in a discussion to a predetermined width based on the resolution setting in order to maintain a readable format. 3. Allow the cells with the link and/or image to expand as required. But only the cells with such links/images. I've seen this at other places so I know it's possible. I think even with a few adjustments to simple table formatting codes this could be done.
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