On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:39:17 -0500 "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA224 > > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:19:54 -0400 > > Alexandre <ac586133@...> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:04:25 -0400 > >> > From: ejlddll@... > >> > To: trinity-devel@... > >> > Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] TDE site glitch on iOS > >> > > >> > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:07:22 -0500 > >> > "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...> wrote: > >> > > >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> > > Hash: SHA224 > >> > > > >> > > Hi E. Liddell, > >> > > > >> > > 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 > >> > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Just a word to say that it works as it should on Firefox for Android. No > >> Firefox on iOS? > > > > No Firefox on iOS. Apple won't let them use any rendering engine other > > than the one that came with the operating system, and the Mozilla > > Foundation won't agree to do that. It was all over the tech news last > > year. > > > > The built-in rendering engine for iOS browsers is vanilla Webkit. I only > > tested on Chrome's Webkit fork (where everything worked much the > > same as it did in Firefox). It'll probably be all right, but without > > checking > > I'm not willing to guarantee that. (And I don't know the age/size of the > > device or the version of iOS, either.) > > > > E. Liddell > > Thanks for the detailed info, much appreciated! > > It's not that important for the mailing list page to work 100% on iOS (in > this case I was just testing for fun on an old iOS 6 device); just thought > I'd throw it out there in case there was a quick fix. > > I'm going to start working on the webdev site; do you have all of the > changes up on GIT as of now? I just finished removing the italics and running off a new logo. I also added that white-space:pre-line bit to the PRE style, just in case. So yes, it's ready. You may want to fine-tune the position of your donation header a bit--I just stuffed it back into something closer to the right place than the bottom corner. E. Liddell