Forum entries forced wider than screen

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Mar 17 2005, 3:35 pm
That's a large subject line. Anyways, I've noticed that some forum posts stretch out as oppossed to auto-wrapping when it reaches the edge of the screen, I find it fairly annoying when posts like these are inserted into large threads, then I have to scroll back and forth to read the posts, and I almost don't even feel like bothering. I was wondering if there was a way to resolve this, or perhaps some moderators would be kind enough (only if they have time, of course) to wrap these posts if you seem them and it bothers you too. It's just difficult to read a 40-entry long thread and have to scroll back and forth for each line, especially when they contain a lot of debate (and thus have large paragraphs). Of course a modification to the way the forum displays whatever kind of tags cause this would be preferred (over manual moderation). *babble*


~Polatrite~

P.S. It's been so long since I actually had to write sensible forum posts. If this is disorganized and/or unreadable, grab the paddle and don't be afraid to apply it.

[Edit: an example: [link] ]
Mar 17 2005, 4:43 pm
Polatrite wrote:
That's a large subject line. Anyways, I've noticed that some forum posts stretch out as oppossed to auto-wrapping when it reaches the edge of the screen, I find it fairly annoying when posts like these are inserted into large threads, then I have to scroll back and forth to read the posts, and I almost don't even feel like bothering. I was wondering if there was a way to resolve this, or perhaps some moderators would be kind enough (only if they have time, of course) to wrap these posts if you seem them and it bothers you too. It's just difficult to read a 40-entry long thread and have to scroll back and forth for each line, especially when they contain a lot of debate (and thus have large paragraphs). Of course a modification to the way the forum displays whatever kind of tags cause this would be preferred (over manual moderation). *babble*


~Polatrite~

P.S. It's been so long since I actually had to write sensible forum posts. If this is disorganized and/or unreadable, grab the paddle and don't be afraid to apply it.

[Edit: an example: [link] ]

I already wrote a bug report on this.
No one did anything -.-
Mar 17 2005, 7:58 pm
In response to Flame Sage
The <DM> tags are what cause this. I'm not a true expert in this, but there should be a way to get the DIV tag, used for the DM code, get expand to the size it is now, but without forcing it's parent container (nor any of the other posts) to resize with it.
Mar 17 2005, 8:56 pm
I edit posts like that when I see them, but I have a fairly large resolution (1152x864) so I probably miss ones that would stretch under lower resolutions.

They're usually caused by one of several things:

- DM tags. It is possible to make them wrap; the forum would have to preserve whitespace itself (by using non-breaking spaces and <br> tags).

- Long automatic links (by automatic links, I mean when you just typein the URL, like http://www.byond.com/). Links don't have spaces in them, so they never get wrapped, and some pages have huuuuuuge URLs. The forum code already has to parse posts for these links, and shortening the link text of those URLs when they're above a certain size would be quite simple. I know of at least one other forum system that does this (phpbb).

- Huge inline images. Not much to be done here besides manual editing, or somehow using Javascript to detect images that are too large and resizing them down to 100% of the available space.
Mar 18 2005, 7:25 am
In response to Yota
 
Also, the

 tags.  See, I'm using them now, and my text just keeps going on and on and on and on...
Mar 18 2005, 7:37 am
In response to Jamesburrow
No one here uses thoes, PRE, XMP, KBD, blah tags though.

The DM tags should be revised, and given the ability to automatically place end-of-line escapes (\) when the line has met a certain count of characters.

For example.. 
proc
    DontCallMe()
        var/list/l = list("Index" = 3, 5, "Harharhar", file("HooRU.txt"), \
          'WhoopDiDoo.wav', global.evilLongLines)
        var/s = "Hello, BYONDers!!!  This is a rather large text " + \
          "string, wouldn't you say?"

Hmm, that could get pretty difficult. Especially considering embeded text, in text strings, in lists, in other lists.
Mar 19 2005, 2:20 am
In response to Yota
Yota wrote:
The DM tags should be revised, and given the ability to automatically place end-of-line escapes (\) when the line has met a certain count of characters.

I like that idea. It shouldn't be too hard to implement; IIRC, you can put EOL escapes just about anywhere that there's existing white space, including directly in text strings, without any negative consequences.
Mar 22 2005, 8:31 am
In response to Jamesburrow
Jamesburrow wrote:
Also, the

 tags.  See, I'm using them now, and my text just keeps going on and on and on and on...



And it's really rather inconsiderate to do in a thread what somebody is complaining about.


~Polatrite~