Maybe this is a good thread to piggyback on, as I've been having trouble with the fixed-fluid and fluid-fixed dichotomy lately. I have a different proposal. I don't have enough experience with either CSS or TiddlyWiki internals to know how difficult it would be to implement, but it doesn't seem crazy complicated to me.
Here's the fundamental problem I see with the existing layout: there is a range of widths that are desirable for the story river. Up until a point, it should be as wide as possible while leaving enough room for the sidebar because you can fit more content on the screen that way. But eventually, making the story river wider makes it harder to read because the lines get unpleasantly long (see for example here <https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html> on readable line widths). I think the desirable point for TW, at least for me, is often substantially wider than for, e.g., a novel, since there's also the side-by-side preview to consider, as well as tables, images, etc. Nevertheless, there's definitely a point where additional width makes the wiki less usable. The fluid-fixed mode is thus problematic because the story river will continue growing without bound as your monitor size increases, to the point where lines are unreadably long. It would be better to leave extra space to the right of the sidebar on large monitors. Fixed-fluid mode solves this problem, but if you set the story river width to a value that leaves enough space for the sidebar on a small monitor, the story river will be exactly the same size on a large monitor, wasting a ton of space, while if you set it to a value that looks good on a large monitor, the sidebar will be permanently exiled to the top of the screen on a small monitor. Essentially, whichever mode you choose, your wiki will look bad on a monitor of a significantly different size. I think a new mode should be offered, perhaps entirely replacing the existing modes and certainly becoming the default, which has two width breakpoints rather than the existing one: - Zone 1, used when viewport width is below minimum side-by-side width: - Sidebar above content; both sidebar and content take up full viewport width (as presently). - Zone 2, used when viewport width is above minimum side-by-side width but below *maximum story river width + fixed sidebar width*: - Sidebar to right of content; sidebar consumes a configurable fixed width, and story river consumes all remaining available space (as in fluid-fixed presently). - Zone 3, used when viewport width exceeds *maximum story river width + fixed sidebar width*: - Sidebar to right of content; story river consumes a configurable maximum width, and sidebar consumes all remaining available space (as in fixed-fluid presently). This would allow each wiki to select sidebar and story river widths that make sense for their content, while retaining a sane display on all screens. On Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 3:44:11 AM UTC-6 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > coda coder wrote: > >> ... And If one disagrees, how does one express dissent? >> > > The GitHub has "downvote" for that :-). > > So far it has 8 "upvotes", which is significant enough to get attention > there. > > My sense is that PMario's PR is, basically, a good idea. > > TT, x > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/aa99b74d-fa46-47dc-b351-321c469011cdn%40googlegroups.com.
