On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:07:22 -0500
"Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...> wrote:

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> Hi E. Liddell,
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> Not sure if there's anything you can do about this but I was browsing the
> TDE site on iOS and got the attached glitch.
> 
> Is there any way to force the horizontal scrollbar to show up in this case
> instead of overlaying the left hand menu bar on top of the text?  This is
> one of the very few cases where horizontal scrolling is preferable to what
> we have now.

There's no way I know of to get a scrollbar in, no, but it's possible to make 
that page better-behaved at narrow widths with a couple of tweaks.  Since 
webdev has moved on from this version of the site, I'll explain them here.

First, add white-space:pre-line; to the style for the PRE element in the
main stylesheet.  This will allow the fixed-size blocks of text in the top-
posting example to word-wrap themselves if there isn't enough space
for them.  (This is one of the most obscure style attributes in CSS, I
suspect--it took me a while to find it.)

Secondly, liberally salt the displayed list email addresses (optionally
also the archive URLs) with the <WBR> tag, which will allow line-breaks
to optionally take place at those locations.
trinity-devel-<WBR>unsubscribe@lists.<WBR>pearsoncomputing.net
can become

trinity-devel-
unsubscribe@lists.
pearsoncomputing.net

which takes up much less horizontal space than the entire thing without 
line-breaks. The catch is, I'm not sure iOS's browser (Mobile Safari?) 
understands this tag--Konqueror just ignores it.  Still, it can't hurt.

E. Liddell