Posted by Slick50 on 12/20/06 01:04

What struck me as funny was "you are doing them a favour". This seems like a
humorous way to *encourage* people to increase their resolution. I thought
it was meant to be a little funny...maybe I was wrong. Sorry if I was.


"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-53CB4F.11521020122006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <nu%hh.7867$Ka1.2492@news01.roc.ny>,
> "Slick50" <spam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> haha, got a good chuckle out of this one :D
>>
>>
>> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:doraymeRidThis-36E590.14484419122006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
>> > In article <dMHhh.7873$ya1.7209@news02.roc.ny>,
>> > "Slick50" <spam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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
>> >
>> > (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.
>> >
>> > or
>> >
>> > (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.
>> >
>
>
> Which part of it did you find the funniest?
>
> --
> dorayme

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