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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN@MYDOMAIN.INVALID
from: ELI THE BEARDED
date: 2020-08-18 00:07:00
subject: Re: Lightweight Browser

In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, Martin Gregorie   wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:57:29 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> Eli the Bearded  wrote:
[ re:  https://qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2020/08/14/notint  ]
>>> I'm not even sure what the best fix would be. Shrink the font?
>> Has a nasty tendency to produce beautifully laid out pages with
>> unreadable text.

Well... I'm not thinking about shrinking everything on the page/site,
just the  block that doesn't fit on the screen of a phone.

>>> Grow the background and force side scrolling?
>> Is a PITA.

Currently the text overflows the background I've put in for the 
block, which is set to phone screen width.

> Agree. I often use  text for  blocks and, if as is often the
> case, the  block represents console output, I'll wrap command lines
> as needed and and backslash continuation markers. Works on on PC screens,
> probably not so well on a phone or small pad.

In this particular case, I've got essentially ASCII art. I'm showing two
different terminal-based Tetris screens, and didn't want to use an image
because then it breaks in text browsers like lynx / links / etc.

(Screen readers, of course, do very poorly with ASCII art, so there's no
winning.)

Elijah
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hoping some of them at least can let the listener skip  content

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