Re: Threadview for messages: really cool but big flaw - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Threadview for messages: really cool but big flaw
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In response to Re: Threadview for messages: really cool but big flaw  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>)
Responses Re: Threadview for messages: really cool but big flaw  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jonathan S. Katz
<jonathan.katz@excoventures.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
theindenting 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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