Bigger Post Window

September 30, 2000 11:24 PM

Is there any particular reason why the window I use to enter my text is so small? I can't think of any reason why it couldn't be twice as wide and four times as tall, and it would really make it a lot easier to use.

Shove it over to the left a long ways to make more room; all of this could be done simply by altering slightly the layout of that section of the page. It wouldn't alter the code in the slightest; just the description and positioning of that window. The window would continue to work exactly as it does now.

posted by Steven Den Beste to Feature Requests at 11:24 PM (6 comments total)

yeah, I could make it bigger. Either a user preference thing, or just big for everyone.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:40 PM on October 1, 2000

I always thought it was to encourage conciseness. :)
posted by webmutant at 9:12 PM on October 2, 2000

'Is there any particular reason why the window I use to enter my text' doesn't just *track the size of the browser window*? You know, so it doesn't go off the right hand side of my 640 monitor competely? ;-)
posted by baylink at 6:10 PM on October 5, 2000

Since February, when I put a counter on my CDMA FAQ, I've had over 9000 hits.

2% of then were at 480 width.

No-one designs web pages to make concessions to 640 width any longer. Jay, stop being a jerk.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:08 PM on October 7, 2000

That should have read "2% of them were at 640 width". I just woke from a nap and I'm still fogged.

posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:08 PM on October 7, 2000

I expect better of you, Steven.

I'm not being a jerk. It doesn't fit on my *800x600* window, *either*.

Since it takes *extra effort to break it* (ie: if you just friggin left it alone, it would expand to the side of the browser window and stop), I don't see that my question was at all pissy.

Your reply, OTOH...

(That's a polite way of saying Fuck Off And Die. :-)
posted by baylink at 10:43 PM on October 28, 2000