3 ms·

Inform HN: Read comment pages having pre tag without horizontal scolling with Fx extension

Hi HN. Recently there have been some comment pages which require horizontal scrolling because of a single comment that was (probably unintentionally) <pre>formatted (eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589346). In case you find that annoying, you can use the Firefox extension 'Toggle Word Wrap' (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2351) to (temporarily) enable word wrapping within <pre> tags also for that page alone. This restores the usual HN look and eliminates the need for scrolling too. I'm sorry if this is a resubmission or is very well known, I'm submitting this since I personally found it very helpful.

thamer 18y ago
I don't know which browser you are using or if your link is right, but I don't need to scroll horizontally on that page. I've tried it with Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, and they both look ok. These are two very recent browsers, so I wouldn't be surprised if they actually fixed an old presentation bug. Hopefully we will need less and less of these "fix" extensions in the future.
- amoeba 18y ago
  Ditto. No extra scrollbars on that page.
- windsurfer 18y ago
  If you make your window smaller than about 1000 pixels wide, you get scrollbars. It's not a presentation bug, it's the <pre> tag keeping line lengths like it's supposed to. Here's an example that you'll probably see: horixontal scroll bars ----- ----- weeeeeee ----- ----- scroooollllll
- sundarurfriend 18y ago
  I'm using Firefox 3.0.10, but it's probably an issue of resolution as windsurfer pointed out. Mine is 1024X768. This page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583159 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583159 has it worse, and would probably need scrollbars in some higher resolutions too.

thamer 18y ago

I don't know which browser you are using or if your link is right, but I don't need to scroll horizontally on that page. I've tried it with Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, and they both look ok. These are two very recent browsers, so I wouldn't be surprised if they actually fixed an old presentation bug. Hopefully we will need less and less of these "fix" extensions in the future.

amoeba 18y ago
Ditto. No extra scrollbars on that page.
windsurfer 18y ago
If you make your window smaller than about 1000 pixels wide, you get scrollbars. It's not a presentation bug, it's the <pre> tag keeping line lengths like it's supposed to. Here's an example that you'll probably see: horixontal scroll bars ----- ----- weeeeeee ----- ----- scroooollllll
sundarurfriend 18y ago
I'm using Firefox 3.0.10, but it's probably an issue of resolution as windsurfer pointed out. Mine is 1024X768. This page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583159 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583159 has it worse, and would probably need scrollbars in some higher resolutions too.