Regarding iframes: we don't use them, don't need them, and won't use them because transclusion will do the job if we want to go that way.
--Jean > On 4 Oct 2013, at 20:03, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > 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 <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > > <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 > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
