Yup, it's supposed to wrap (edit: and it does in Mozilla).
It is twice as long as any other slug, though.
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DXMachina - Jan 03, 2003 2:32:36 pm PST #2600 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
John H - Jan 03, 2003 2:42:11 pm PST #2601 of 10000
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...
P.M. Marc - Jan 03, 2003 4:22:03 pm PST #2602 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Lameo girl wondering if the HTML in headers extends to making live links. Don't want to break anything.
DXMachina - Jan 03, 2003 4:23:17 pm PST #2603 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Do you mean the thread headers? You can put live links in the headers.
edit: I did it in some thread or another.
Michele T. - Jan 03, 2003 4:30:45 pm PST #2604 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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?
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 5:13:49 pm PST #2605 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
Michele T. - Jan 03, 2003 5:22:17 pm PST #2606 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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?
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 03, 2003 5:26:14 pm PST #2607 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
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.
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 6:47:01 pm PST #2608 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is this not an issue for you?
It's not. I see a clearly defined gap, like RL says.
John H - Jan 03, 2003 8:06:00 pm PST #2609 of 10000
The idea of force-wrapping text to suit isn't a good one, but I'd be happy with the principle of indenting the slugs, it's a much better solution if they're going to get long.