Most Western newspapers evolved to display newsprint text in columns. It wasn't just a coincidence. Science later backed up the theory that it is easier to read text if there are a certain number of words per line. Ditto the formatting of books.
For some strange reason, the 'new' Babble isn't allowing my browser (Firefox) to resize windows to a desired column width and have the text word-wrap to that width.
It's funny, because the 'old' Babble allowed me to do just that.
It's not so much word wrapping as it is fixed column width. The old rabble probably had a variable column which is why it moved when you resized your window. The reason why fixed column widths are used is to maintain a consistent layout design regardless of screen size. There is much debate between the two types, but ya.. that would be the issue.
It's not so much word wrapping as it is fixed column width. The old rabble probably had a variable column which is why it moved when you resized your window...
Thanks for explaining the reason for the problem I'm having coues.
I hope the powers that be will try to do something about it. 
Facebook has the same "problem". It's a feature of site designs which want to monopolize your attention. 
>>Facebook has the same "problem". It's a feature of site designs which want to monopolize your attention.<<
Boy this site keeps throwing more and more curve balls every day!
Just now, I wanted to quote your last post Unionist and Babble refused to provide me with the quote option for the last few posts!
I just visited Facebook and interestingly, for me, the screen doesn't go into horizontal scroll mode.
Next I visted about 15 or so of my favourite sites. Only one made a recent change to Rabble's famous side scroll feature.
I sure hope this doesn't become a new pattern. Maybe the thinking is that with everyone buying WXGA screens, it's time to fill up the right side of the screen with an onslaught of ads (for when they aren't watching videos).
Just now, I wanted to quote your last post Unionist and Babble refused to provide me with the quote option for the last few posts!
I have the same problem. The above quote was coded manually by yours truly.
I have raised the issue in [url=http://rabble.ca/babble/rabble-reactions/reporting-tech-issues-rabble-ii... THREAD.[/url]
I've been playing with the latest version of Movable Type with an eye towards upgrading the blog. Every style (or template or skin or whatever you want to call them) I've looked at is fixed width at about 940 pixels. That's roughly where this site is set, too. Designers are all assuming that everyone has a nice, new, high resolution monitor.
I hacked into one of them to see if I could make it fluid width. It's not as easy as it used to be. I ended up with something that resized okay but it had a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom no matter what size I set my browser window to and even though there was nothing over there to scroll over and see.
I ended up with something that resized okay but it had a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom no matter what size I set my browser window to and even though there was nothing over there to scroll over and see.
That's exactly what I have on my browser now.
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I ended up with something that resized okay but it had a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom no matter what size I set my browser window to and even though there was nothing over there to scroll over and see.
That just means another element (ie: a div, an image, a table, whatever) has a fixed width and is preventing that fluid width you changed to be any shorter. You'll need to find out what element has the fixed width and then change it to a fluid width as well. A lot of times it could simply be a wide image, which there's nothing you can do about other than make it smaller.
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