In "Re: lynx-dev Tables (once again) and virtual lynx pages "
[May/12/2000 Fri 12:10:18]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Duncan Simpson wrote:
> >My personal feelng about tbales is that horizontal scrollis s the *wrong*
> >solution and instead there should be a "render this HMTL to this width"
> >feature in the rendering engine.
[...]
> Even now, links follows the HTML I would say "too closely" and you end up
> with columns of text that are very narrow (often when a page has a column
> of links then a column of a news story). I wish it would use more horizontal
> space, as long as it didn't use more than the width of the screen for each
> column.
Hmm, with or without tables in mind, here's another possible use for
horizontal scrolling: inside some PRE blocks. With some, the author
assumes your browser will do a proper word-wrap and that could result in
some REALLY long lines, but try something like Lycos.com's FTP search
engine, which puts its URL results inside a PRE block.
ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium
Not bad, but with long filepaths you get some unpredictable wrapping. An
unwrapped page with horizontal scrolling would be much easier to read.
For something like that, I guess half-screen-right, half-screen-left,
full-screen-etc commands would be useful.
Wish I knew how to DO some of this stuff myself. . .
Patrick
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