[Python-Dev] Playing with a new theme for the docs (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sun Mar 25 08:56:53 CEST 2012

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

Not every tab in my browser is text for reading; some are apps that need the extra horizontal space. So, again, why make your browser window for reading text that large?

Because he prefers controlling the content viewed by selecting tabs rather than selecting windows, no doubt. But since he's arguing the other end in the directory layout thread (where he says there are many special ways to invoke Python so that having different layouts on different platforms is easy to work around), I can't give much weight to his preference here.

Anyway, CSS is supposed to allow the user to impose such constraints herself, so Philip "should" do so with a local style, rather than ask designers to do it globally.

It's madness to expect web designers to hobble the flexibility of a web page to cater preferentially for one minority over others.

No, as Glenn points out, designers (I wouldn't call them web designers since they clearly have no intention of taking advantage of the power of the web in design, even if they incorporate links in their pages!) frequently do exactly that. (The minority of one in question being the designer himself!) So it's rational to expect it. :-(

However, I believe that CSS also gives us the power to undo such bloodymindedness, though I've never gone to the trouble of learning how.

Steve

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