Music thread slug
You mean on the front page / message center? I'm unclear on where a break would go and how it would help.
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Music thread slug
You mean on the front page / message center? I'm unclear on where a break would go and how it would help.
Lots of those thread slugs wrap on my browser/font-size/window-size anyway. I don't get how Music is any different.
Yup, it's supposed to wrap (edit: and it does in Mozilla).
It is twice as long as any other slug, though.
I think the basic principles of usability tell us that to let it wrap is better than to force it to break at a point which may look weird to some users.
[edited because trying to demonstrate the principle with the actual string was too hard]
If you put a break after Sondheim, for instance, there'll always be a user for whom "Sondheim" has wrapped onto the next line.
So it'll be like
...burns, mixtapes, club hits, and [wrap]
Sondheim [forced break]
Sarah Vaughan to the Mekons...
Lameo girl wondering if the HTML in headers extends to making live links. Don't want to break anything.
Do you mean the thread headers? You can put live links in the headers.
edit: I did it in some thread or another.
Yeah, but another basic principle of usability is "overly-long lines of text are hard to read." Can we just force those lines to be shorter somehow?
You muste be using a very wide window, Michele, because (as John H. pointed out) the Music slug isn't the only one that wraps on my screen.
I do, in fact, have a humongous screen, Jon. I'm more worried about the lines running very far from the thread title and seeming to merge with the right-hand sidebar. Is this not an issue for you?
Maybe from a half to a third of the slugs wrap around on my 800 x 600 monitor; but there's a gap about... half the size of my first finger... clearly delineating the center bit from the right-hand table.