Comment 4 for bug 655750

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Ted Bodfish (tedbs) wrote : RE: [Bug 655750] Re: manpage format too wide

I've experienced this in FireFox on both Lucid (have not tried Maverick yet) and Windows, and in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome on Windows.

Try http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/ls.1.html and narrow it down so just the body of the man page and table of contents strip are visible. The search text box and search button will disappear. Hit refresh, and the table of contents strip will disappear. If you widen the page again and hit refresh, the table of contents reappears.

I'd like to be able to narrow my browser window so that it just fits the content of the man page, including the table of contents, and see the search text box and button with no horizontal scroll bar.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Stuart Metcalfe
Sent: November-30-10 7:05 PM
To: tedbs
Subject: [Bug 655750] Re: manpage format too wide

@Ted: I can't reproduce the issue you've described in #2 in either
Chrome or Firefox on Maverick. Can you tell us which specific URL this
happens on and which browser/Ubuntu version you're using?

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manpage format too wide
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Status in Canonical Design: New
Status in ISD web (organisational project): New
Status in Ubuntu Manpage Repository: New
Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

After adjusting to the new manpage format on the web, I am pleased. The format is much cleaner and easier to read - bravo! My enthusiasm is tempered by two issues:

1. The header and footer displays are much wider than the content. It would be nice to be able to adjust the width of the browser window as narrow as possible without showing the horizontal scroll bar and still see the content of the page as well as the header and footer. Currently, when the browser window is adjusted to the width of the content, the ubuntu logos and, more importantly, the search box scroll off the window to the right.

2. The table of contents strip on the left disappears after a refresh.

Ted Bodfish
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