[WikiEN-l] Simple code for formatting lists in two colums

Fri Oct 7 15:34:48 UTC 2005

Well, I passed it on (i forgot where i first saw it)
because I think its a good solution compared to others
Ive seen. Its really simple, so its not as
code-obstructive as others, and can be removed for
special purposes. 

The formatting solution vs function solution issue is
something youre going to need to take to the W3C -
HTML is all style and no function. Im sure Wikipedia
isnt the only site you have problems reading on your
Blackberry. Still, that does address perhaps a
technical need to show wikipedia articles in extremely
plaintext form - like printing mode, only with links
still in place. You should take this up with the
devos. There's probably already an FR on
bugzilla.wikimedia.org for it. 

SV

--- Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:50 +0100, Tony Sidaway
> wrote:
> > On 10/7/05, Kelly Martin
> <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Be careful using this. Some people still browse
> Wikipedia on 800x600
> > > monitors, and I frequently use my Blackberry to
> access Wikipedia.
> > > Formatting like this may not transfer well to
> small-screen devices.
> > >
> > >
> > Actually it seems to be designed to scale
> according to browser page width (I
> > wish more pages did this!) A table may look
> slightly odd if the available
> > screen width isn't enough to contain all the text
> and it has to wrap the
> > columns, but at least you get to see the text
> without annoying horizontal
> > scroll. Wikipedia is actually quite good at this;
> some sites such as gmail
> > are utterly hopeless, apparently written by
> complete amateurs.
> 
> But it is markup by layout not function, and
> therefore bad. There should
> be a generic use as many columns as fit on the
> screen - this forces 2.
> 
> I try to use wikipedia on my phone too quite often.
> The main problem is
> the amount of clutter around the information, which
> lays out very badly
> on a small screen. AT some point I migth play around
> with how best to
> fix this.
> 
> Justinc
> 
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