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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/20/06 00:48
Slick50 wrote:
> haha, got a good chuckle out of this one :D
Wish you would stop top posting! Which one are you referring to, dorayme
listed two points...
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> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:doraymeRidThis-36E590.14484419122006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
>> In article <dMHhh.7873$ya1.7209@news02.roc.ny>,
>> "Slick50" <spam@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> I don't mean to imply that it is better. I am just trying to learn how to
>>> do
>>> different things.
>>>
>>> When I resize the window, my horizontal list spills over into a new line
>>> which looks bad to me. If you are willing to explain the right technique
>>> here, I'm all ears. Reduce the font size? Less list items? Neither of
>>> those
>>> seem like the right thing to do in this case.
>> You have two main choices, between fixing it so that
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>> (1) People have to scroll sideways to look at your list. They get
>> to see only some of the list when they could be seeing the lot.
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>> or
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>> (2) The functional one, users don't have to scroll sideways, they
>> don't have to stare at half a list (how good a look is that?).
>>
>> By selecting the right css, with sufficient padding and margins
>> etc, it is not so bad a look when these things wrap. I do
>> understand your concerns but you can console yourself with the
>> not too fanciful idea that most people will be viewing on 800px
>> wide or more and all will be fine, just a few will see it
>> wrapped, you are doing them a favour.
>>
>> --
>> dorayme
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Jonathan
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