Hi :)
I think it is widely agreed, by website designers, as being good practice to 
use percentages or proportional sizes rather than fixed sizes.  Sadly they/we 
still often use fixed sizes because it's easier for them/us to understand.  
It's not just about font-height (although that is one critical factor) but also 
about 'screen'-size, or rather, how large the page is on the screen.  People 
are going to expect to be able to skim through wiki's on hand-held devices 
(tablets, phones etc).  


Is it possible to 'fix' the size of frames, in wikis, as a percentage of the 
screen-size or proportional to font-height?  I think it is possible in html but 
i didn't even realise wikis could have frames at all.  

Wiki-markup/down tends to be 'simplified' html/css so that 
<h1>heading</h1>
becomes 
= heading =
and
<h2>sub-heading</h2>
becomes 
== sub-heading ==

So, i think the wiki 'coding' look less cluttered and is easier to read (or 
ignore or work-around) while just editing the contents.  Some coders might say 
that is not important and having "yet another" mark-up/down just creates 
fragmentation and confusion but i think is fairly crucial that it is easier for 
non-coders to be able to read and edit contents.  It might be an insult and a 
shock to some people but not all coders are much good at writing content and 
not all great documenters can cope with coding.  Wiki allows un-coded content 
to look reasonably good and then other people can come along later and add or 
tweak the coding to improve the look of the page.  To my mind it takes at least 
2 people to make a wiki-page look good and be useful.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  

PS (Jean is one of those people who often achieves 2, or more, people's worth 
so i'm not really contradicting what we see happen)



----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Jean Weber <[email protected]>

<snip />

> 
> No, not HTML. A wiki include statement that pulls in another page (or part of 
> a page) on the same wiki. I'll find it, once I take a few minutes to look for 
> it.
> 
> --Jean

Also, iframes with specified heights are evil. Many of us increase font sizes 
and badly done iframes cut off bits of the text.


--Jean
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