Hi Soren, That sounds like exactly the right solution, I like it.
Best wishes Jeremy > On 13 Feb 2021, at 17:37, Soren Bjornstad <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/aa99b74d-fa46-47dc-b351-321c469011cdn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/aa99b74d-fa46-47dc-b351-321c469011cdn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/D17723B5-B6E7-4F8D-A462-FD1785097EC0%40gmail.com.
