[GRASS-dev] grass71 css changes

[Vaclav Petras]

Hi Martin, I'm glad you like it. I was just discussing this with Markus who
requested the narrower fixed layout, so I don't want to write it again, so
here is the conversation. About the examples, we can add horizontal scroll
bar, example is here:
http://fatra.cnr.ncsu.edu/temporal-grass-workshop/#time-series-registration-and-visualization

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...He wishes back the large screen support...
>
>
> This is why originally I did not included this style to the new CSS (CSS
> for workshop). The problem is that we don't know what is the right
> solution. You were using the term large screen support for div with fixed
> size to not spread over the whole screen, now you are saying that large
> screen support is to actually use the screen width.
>
> The other problem is that the layout is not small enough in small windows,
> I for example use website one left half (or <1/2) of the screen and working
> on the other. I hit this issue no latter then on the workshop.
>
>
>> especially since the
>> landing page with the overview needs to be scrolled now (see
>> screenshot).
>>
>> The overview is of course special and it is the biggest problem and we
> really cannot, or don't want, to have different layout/style/header for the
> special pages. Here the situation might be improved by reducing the intro
> text to one sentence and a More... link which would go to the bottom where
> would be a full intro. Perhaps we should do this in any case.
>
>
>> To make everybody happy, I wonder if there is a way to make the layout
>> width limitation somehow switchable (essentially: div container on and
>> off)?
>>
>> This is quite challenging. You need JavaScript for this which we are not
> currently using. But what is worse, you don't want the user to switch it
> every time, he or she opens a new page or returns the manual, so you need
> cookies. To use the cookies, you should tell the user what you are doing
> and offer to opt-out. HTML5 Local Storage might be a bit better but we are
> not using HTML5 yet, so I'm not sure if we want to go this way. (But I hope
> we will switch to HTML5 eventually, the question is if to use also
> JavaScript.) Some things (support for smaller screens, not user settings)
> can be also achieved by CSS3 but again, it is not what we are using now.
>
> Current TOC is made for the original full width layout, so there is no
> problem with it besides that it is unnecessary to hide it when it is on
> empty background on standard and wider screens.
>
> We can simply remove the width constrain now or leave it there and try to
> improve the pages where it is an issue (if the change makes sense also for
> the original layout).
>
> What about getting some feedback on grass-user?
>



On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2014-09-24 20:42 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
> > width on the page, it seems to be too narrow [1] to me compared to
>
> look eg. at [1] where some of examples overflow the border.
>
> Martin
>
> [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/v.in.ascii.html
>
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