https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501
--- Comment #15 from ShoeMaker <technical...@yahoo.com> --- (In reply to comment #13) > Quim Gil's comment is in fact correct. Very wide paragraphs of text are in > fact hard to read. The reader is forced to move their head more and it becomes > difficult to find the start of the next line. Likewise when a paragraph of > text is too narrow the reader is forced to break to the next line too often > breaking the flow of their reading. There is an optimum range for the width > of a > paragraph of text. That wasn't being debated (at least not by me). > And white space is not a waste. White space between things de-clutters pages > giving things room to breathe and separating unrelated stuff. That is true, yet again only on wide-screens. > The white area below the sidebar is not the problem. The problem is that > these small and portrait screens don't have the space to fit both the optimal > paragraph width and the width of a sidebar. Not sure what your point is with the first sentence of this comment. My comment regarding fixing the sidebar location (I incorrectly used the word absolute) was so that when you are at the bottom of a very long page, you still have easy access to all of the links that it offers without having to scroll ALL the way back to the top (and no, keyboard shortcuts don't exist on my mobile phone). For that matter, perhaps the top section shouldn't scroll either to have easy access to the edit link or other links, although... > At the same time our current navigation isn't very well suited to alternate > forms of display. Would it be possible to add media selectors to the CSS or some kind of HxW (probably JavaScript) detection to the pages that can detect the orientation and size of the window pages are being displayed in and format them appropriately? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
