Re: Wiki issue

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:18:27 -0800

Andrew, I don't see how any of these responses to your Wiki message could have been viewed as anything but helpful? Please explain when you get a chance.
As for editing it, I believe this is just one of those very few pages that has restrictions as to who can edit it because it contains VERY important information that they don't want to risk being modified by spammers, etc. 

My recommendations would be the following:


1. Up your resolution.  My 15" laptop browser has a resolution of  
1440x900

2. Try Jacques suggestion and make your font size smaller in your window
3. Submit a JIRA issue asking for the example to be changed.
4. any others

Cheers,
Tim
--
Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

o:801.649.6594
f:801.649.6595


On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Andrew Ballantine wrote:


Hi,

Thanks for your observations, but I don't really understand how you  
expect

me to fix it.

I regret that none of your comments are any help as the example  
page is not

editable.


I also note that even the sandbox page is slightly wider than the  
browser
window resulting in a horizontal slider at the bottom of the  
screen. Poor

HTML design again.


I use a 1024 x 768 screen which is quite enough on a standard 17"  
screen.



I must also say that this new wiki is not particularly user  
friendly. Yes,
one can get used to it, but there is plenty of wiki software out  
there that

is intuitive. Hey Ho, I'll struggle on, but all these hurdles are
depressing.


Everyone seems so defensive on this project I am finding it is  
difficult to

contribute as I am getting to the point where I am not sure I dare to
comment for fear of another lashing or negative response.


Kind regards,

Andrew Ballantine
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Tim Ruppert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: 24 January 2007 14:30
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Wiki issue



  I think the biggest reason that I would see is that some things  
wrap and
are fine contextually - much of the time . . . command lines do not  
fall
into this category.  My recommendation on this one would be to get  
a shorter

example, but wrapping can be a good way to go for sure.


  Cheers,
  Tim

  --
  Tim Ruppert
  HotWax Media
  http://www.hotwaxmedia.com


  o:801.649.6594
  f:801.649.6595




  On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:19 AM, Andrew Sykes wrote:


    Andrew, Tim,



    The diff line definitely seems to be the problem, perhaps it  
would be a
    good idea to have a best practise somewhere that asked for  
verbatim

    lines to be split when they were in danger of causing this kind of
    formatting problem, I see it too, and it definitely isn't too
    pretty! :-)


    e.g.
    $ start of line
    ~\ continuation
    ~\ even more...


    Is there any reason not to do this?


    - Andrew




    On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 07:01 -0700, Tim Ruppert wrote:
      Andrew, I'm guessing hte problem that you're having with this is
      caused by two things:




      1. You have quite a small viewable space in your browser

      2. the svn diff of ShipmentServices is a bit wider than you  
have going

      on.





      #1 we can't help you with :) - #2 is probably something more  
in the
      way Confluence handles verbatim text.  In this particulart  
case, we

      would have a few options:




      1. Make the example path shorter
      2. See where & why Confluence handles these this way.





      I'm guessing that it's easier to do #1, but maybe someone  
know why
      verbatim-esque things are handle this way.  I checked a bunch  
of other
      wiki formats and they ALL pretty much handle them in a  
similar manner
      because it's just following what the user asked - to display  
something

      exactly the way that they see it.




      Anyways, I hope this helps explain the mystery.




      Cheers,
      Tim
      --
      Tim Ruppert
      HotWax Media
      http://www.hotwaxmedia.com




      o:801.649.6594
      f:801.649.6595






      On Jan 24, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Andrew Ballantine wrote:


        Hi,





        I have noticed that quite a few of the wiki pages extend  
wider than

        the
        browser page.




        Is it not possible to set the wiki HTML so that it always
        proportions the
        content to the current size of the window?





        The reason for the request is that it quite difficult to  
read a long
        document with having to constantly shift the window from  
side to

        side.




        An example of this is:
        http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best
        +Practices




        I am using Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows2000 if that makes any
        difference.
        Internet V6 does the same.




        Kind regards,




        Andrew Ballantine.
        --
        No virus found in this outgoing message.
        Checked by AVG Free Edition.

        Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release  
Date:

        23/01/2007
        20:40













         
*****************************************************************
        This email has been checked by the altohiway Mailcontroller  
Service
         
*****************************************************************





    --
    Kind Regards
    Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Sykes Development Ltd
    http://www.sykesdevelopment.com




--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.

Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release Date:  
23/01/2007

20:40





Attachment:
smime.p7s

Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature






















					Reply via email to