Best wishes
Mohammad

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 5:39 PM si <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Soren @Jeremy I often zoom out when using TW in the browser so I also
> experience the problem Soren describes. I just wanted to add my vote to his
> alternative proposal.
>

Hi Si,
 Is this related to text or other objects? Do you like to have a pair of
buttons to increase/decrease/reset the font size?

>
> On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 17:37:35 UTC Soren Bjornstad 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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