The suggestions post

[denise]

Soon (for certain values of 'soon'), there will be a "suggestions generator", where you fill out forms and it will post an entry to this community for you, for discussion and the like.

Until then, if you've got something you'd like to suggest for Dreamwidth, you can leave it as a comment here! You can review our development roadmap explanation first, since it includes a lot of our upcoming big projects.

The Suggestions Generator is now live! Please fill out that form instead.

Comments

Re: Control of the Navbar

[facetofcathy]

Sorry I took so long to get back to you. I ran away from the internet for most of the weekend.

Resolution: 1024x768.
Minimum font in Firefox: 16px

I tried a few things with your suggested CSS, adjusting the width instruction to match my resolution (you have to account for the scroll bar on the right, so 1024 is a bit too big), adjusting the font instruction. In all cases, if it works only if I turn off my minimum font setting in firefox, and don't use ctrl+ to up the font size. Both these things are overriding the CSS and stretching out the navbar.

It's a small part of the issue for me, I'd like to be able to fix it, but the stretching is usually very minimal on DW. We won't talk about LJ, where the navbar is always much wider than the page. If you've got some other ideas, I'll gladly try them when I get time, but my feeling is that as long as I set a font size and font style in firefox that overrides the web page fonts, it will stretch out just that bit too far.

Re: Control of the Navbar

[zvi]

*Thinks more thoughts* I was hoping that setting a width would make a reasonably clever software program wrap the rows in the table, but apparently not.

So, the question becomes, can you deal with the font in the navigation bar being too small, while everything else is the right size?

(Also, wow, I never realized that the font-size specified in the CSS was so tiny. I use a 1200 width resolution, so I use a minimum font of 18, and I took it off to play with the CSS, and, wow, tiny print!)

If so, removing the minimums while reading your DW page, you can try

body {font-size: 16px !important;}
#lj_controlstrip { width: 1000px; font-size: 14px !important; }

With their powers combined, and FF's minimum font-size turned off, that would make your reading page not side-scroll. (Might have to pull the control strip font down one or two more times.)

It's a not optimal solution, but I don't know of a better one, since those table rows are not wrapping.

(Huh, I may have to figure out if I can see some nowrapping mojo on them.)

Sorry I couldn't do better than that. :/

Re: Control of the Navbar

[facetofcathy]

I think I'm throwing in the towel on this issue. I'm going to monkey around with stylish, rather than using Firefox defaults, see if that helps. I also think I'm going to just tell the cats to suck it up and trade in the CRT for a smallish widescreen flatpanel monitor. Too many websites are not viewable now at my settings.