Control strip needs more wrapping

[zvi]

Title:
Control strip needs more wrapping

Area:
control strip, styles

Summary:
The control strip is a table with many of its cells set to "no-wrap." Because of this, it displays inflexibly wide and causes horizontal scrolling

Description:
The control strip can get really wide when you're viewing a user with whom you have a complicated relationship "You and 25characterusername have mutual subscriptions and you have granted 25characterusername access." This can cause horizontal scrolling, despite the fact that all of our layouts are liquid and don't require horizontal scrolling.

Even in the case where you have a relatively simple relationship with the journal you're viewing, the default font-size is rather small. If one has minimum font sizes set to something larger, like 16 or 20 or 36, not only does the navbar cause horizontal scrolling, but one of the more useful portions for someone who has large font viewing needs or preferences is often not in the initial display screen, off to the side in a horizontal scroll.

If the no-wrap tags were removed for everything except usernames (and maybe the search text entry and its accompanying pull-down and submit button), the control strip would be more liquid and more useful at smaller resolutions and larger font sizes.

Poll #1196 Control strip needs more wrapping

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Should be implemented as-is.
37 (90.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (9.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ct]

This is my favorite suggestion in weeks.

Also, not being a CSS person, I voted for "as-is" meaning "as long as wrapped text would stay on the control strip (meaning that the strip would get taller if needed) as opposed to flowing off onto the journal itself. I don't know enough to know if this is an issue with DW's CSS, but text overflowing its bounds is a pet peeve on other websites.

[msilverstar]

I have the problem when my font is set to a larger size for easier reading. This tends to embiggen the whole layout and push the links to view in light or my style off to the right, requiring extra scrolling. I wish those links were just always there.

ETA: also the wording of "You and 25characterusername have mutual subscriptions and you have granted 25characterusername access" is incredibly long and hard to scan! There has to be some better and shorter verbiage.

[zvi]

Hmm, I think we should probably stop making these compound sentences and match tenses -- "You and exampleusername have mutual subscriptions. You grant exampleusername access." -- but the terminology around subscribe and access were chosen after a lot of thought on how to minimize drama, and I don't want to get into that again, because the process would lead to drama and confusion, even if it came up with even more neutral and immediately comprehensible vocabulary. :/

[afuna]

"You, exampleusername, mutually subscribed"

I'm kidding... I think.

Oh, but how about cutting out the sentence and using some kind of symbolic representation?

You <= subscribe => 25characterexampleusername
You <= access => 25characterexampleusername


Or

You = subscribe => 25character exampleusername

...but not so ugly.

[msilverstar]

Oh, I'm NOT arguing with access and subscription! I am keenly aware of the complicated vocabulary emotional issues there.

One solution would be to ditch the sentences and use a couple of bullet points

* you and exampleusername are mutually subscribed
* you give exampleusername access

or hey, just leave out the name...

you are mutually subscribed / You give them access

Huh. I just noticed that there's no such info in your style. All that stuff is missing

[zvi]

I don't know that it really works transitively ...

You ≠ subscribe = exampleusername
You = grant access ≠ exampleusername

is about as clear as mud.

You and exampleusername subscribe to each other.
You and exampleusername grant access to each other.

Is that better or worse than using mutual?

[zvi]

No! Don't leave out the username. For one thing, you can get the account info on reading pages, where it may not be immediately obvious what account this is. (Also very useful on comms.)

I don't know what you mean about there's no such info in my style. Do you have the navbar set to appear on journals in your circle? I have the navbar on everywhere, and I see it on my journal just fine. It says "You're viewing your journal"

[afuna]

Hmm, I think it's about the same in terms of character count. Or is it just a bit shorter?