Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Re: bad formatting of news page

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-2-000-jobs-Morland-s/story-28054944-detail/story.html
>
>I find the least painful way to read the story is to save the whole
>page as text and then read the textfile.
>
>Has the website programmer made some inept setting in the stylesheet
>(CSS), or is Netsurf making some mistake or interpreting something too
>literally?
>
>I presume browsers such as Firefox show what the designer intended.

Is it the same as this? http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2426

Chris

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