Re: Threadview for messages: really cool but big flaw

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

Jonathan