From: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Horizontal scrollbar in email archives |
Date: | 2021-01-08 18:45:35 |
Message-ID: | 39d22520-78bf-ef81-8499-1fbc4ae7ee76@postgresql.org |
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On 1/8/21 1:41 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On 1/8/21 12:50 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:39:31PM -0500, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>>> On 1/8/21 11:31 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> I see an odd horizontal scrollbar when viewing the email archives in
>>>> Firefox 84.0.2. Specifically it happens when I am on a 'message id'
>>>> link:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210108155040.GC18394%40momjian.us
>>>>
>>>> Screenshot attached, with orange scrollbar. I think it is related to
>>>> the new 'thread' drop-down list. If I choose "Whole thread", it
>>>> disappears, and so does the thread drop-down list.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's a constraint based on how a "select" dropdown works and how
>>> we list out the subthreads within threads.
>>>
>>> If we don't indent on each subthread, we could correct that, but does
>>> that diminish the overall user experience?
>>
>> Oh, so it is a known issue. Seems fine, though it is kind of odd that
>> the dropdown doesn't really need all that width. So, I guess you are
>> saying the scroll is really based on how much indenting we do --- makes
>> sense.
>
> Hm, so I modify my previous statement slightly now that I actually
> clicked the URL.
>
> The issue in this case is the long CC row and the fact that the contents
> are in a table. Loosely speaking, the max width of a row in a table is
> going to set the width of every other row. I may be able to do something
> here, actually.
>
> The comment about the "select" is still true, but it doesn't affect this
> case (and prevents me from what I think would be a witty reply to "keep
> email chains shorter" ;)
>
> I'll experiment a bit and see if I can make this a bit better.
...updating my answer yet again, it does appear that there is a CSS
class on the select that is pushing it to be too large in this case, but
the good news is that I don't think this will be difficult to modify.
I have to see if I still have a dev environment setup for the
pgarchives, but outside of that I should be able to push something up
shortly.
Jonathan
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