Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Re: bad formatting of news page

On 30 March 2016 12:34:45 BST, Jim Nagel <jim@archivemag.co.uk> wrote:
>Chris Young wrote on 30 Mar:
>
>> On 30 March 2016 00:20:52 BST, Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk>
>wrote:
>>>What is it about the formatting of my local newspaper's web pages?
>>>Netsurf shows the main column of text so narrow that every line
>>>requires horizontal scrolling. Typical example:
>>>http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Baily-s-costs-dream-revive-2-0
>>>00-jobs-Morland-s/story-28054944-detail/story.html
>...
>
>> Is it the same as this?
>> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2426
>
>Yes, seems to be same. I note that Michael Drake (of the Netsurf
>team) replied to your post at 9:01 this morning.
>
>I might be jumping to conclusions from his rather cryptic reply, but
>I'm guessing that my local paper and yours both use Media Queries
>software to generate web pages. Results certainly look alike!
>
>By the way, did you mean to reply to me privately rather than to the
>Netsurf list?

I did a "reply all", should have gone to both. Replying to this to ensure the trail is all on the list.

Chris

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