[pmwiki-users] Edit page extensions

Joachim Durchholz jo at durchholz.org
Wed Apr 27 03:21:59 CDT 2005


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:40:43PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 
>> Not sure what makes you feel uneasy, but I'd be wondering what
>> PmWiki would do if one checkbox was checked and the other
>> unchecked.
> 
> It'd likely be confused, or choose the value of the last one only. 
> (Depends on how the browser sends it and how PHP interprets it.)

I was more thinking about how I'd feel as a user.

>>>> But I really would like the width of the textarea to be 100% of
>>>> the page, and not a fixed character width.
>>> 
>>> As always this is customizable -- I may even make it customizable
>>>  in the markup instead of just in CSS.  But there's already a 
>>> request to make it customizable at a per-author level.... (sigh).
>>> :-)
>> 
>> Try setting it to 100% and see whether the request persists.
>> 
>> (This is one of the cases where I think customisation is more of a
>>  burden than a help: all users have to read and understand what it
>> means, a waste of time and concentration for the vast majority of
>> them who don't change the setting anyway.)
> 
> I'm afraid I don't understand this at all -- it's already set to 98%
> in the PmWiki default skin, and I'm sure that most of the other skins
> set it to a wider width.  (PmWiki uses 98% because IE's box model 
> often has trouble with scrolling when it's set to 100%.)
> 
> What exactly are you saying I should "set" here?

Um... the discussion, I'd say. I.e. declare that 98% is OK, and see what
people think.

I'm really wondering why any user would want to set the editbox width to
anything else.

Regards,
Jo



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