[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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