https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30270
--- Comment #14 from [email protected] 2011-08-24 06:13:34 UTC --- Thanks for the photos! I agree about the whitespace: We're making a "gallery", which implies some effort at aesthetics. There's not quite enough space between the images on my edits, and they would look a bit nicer with more space. I'm not opposed to leaving them narrow though, just to get this done. It doesn't look terrible that way, and it has a practical advantage of providing more images per row, with less wrapping (which is very ugly). Plus, it's expedient. Hmm, when I think about how ugly it is to have 1 image wrapped and hanging out of place, the narrow spacing stops seeming unattractive. I don't think they should be spaced out more unless the spacing can be dynamic, to minimize wrapping. That's much uglier than the beauty of whitespace, for a net loss. About caption wrapping: Don't forget how small this space is to begin with. 4px may not sound like much (on each side, iirc?), but it's a significant percentage of the available space. And, being one pixel too short for a single letter will not affect just one letter - it will cause a whole word to wrap, OR MORE, if it's a hyphenated word like a name or something. Just imagine having a wiki page of university faculty, each with long names like "Chandrasekhar". Or maybe concatenated names for images of scientific subjects like "An Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox". It would be much nicer if those captions didn't need to wrap until absolutely necessary. Otherwise, you end up with very little on some lines, and lot on others, which makes it look odd. Imagine the last example looking something like this: An Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox Or this: An Einstein–Podolsky– Rosen paradox It starts to get difficult to read at that point, and causes the entire gallery bottom borders to descend just to accommodate perhaps only one image that word wraps unnecessarily. Keep in mind that some languages can have very long words, like Finnish and German. Others have short words, but sometimes more of them, like Spanish or Chinese (where word wrapping would be less of a problem). In addition to language, it also depends on font size. In something as small and delicate as the MediaWiki gallery, we can't really afford to be wasteful. The beauty comes mostly from the content images anyway, so I think we ought to lean towards letting that dominate, without intruding too much with our own aesthetics. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
