Re: Threadview for messages: really cool but big flaw

On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jonathan S. Katz
> <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed the nifty "threadview" drop-down on each message in the
>>>> archives, which would really make my life a lot easier as CFM ... except
>>>> that it's unreadable for long threads. Look here for example:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqTAfWy_VY6PKdM_eg7snG9Z2+MAH+N85FW7AGDNgUmqsw@mail.gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> The basic issue is that, on a long discussion thread, indenting pushes
>>>> the thread off the right side of the page. What if we just removed the
>>>> indenting?
>>>
>>> Probably would be better to set the CSS property "overflow-x" to "auto" as opposed to hidden - that way we can keep the indenting to show the progression of the thread but we can still scroll and see the info.
>>
>> Here is a patch for exactly that. This is in the pgarchives project
>
> Hmm. Can we find a way to do that that doesn't actually modify the
> jquery-ui code? That's going to be a PITA for upgrades. Surely there
> should be a way to override it form our own stylesheets?

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