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Document width discussion #239
Description
After we have #235, we could set a width or a max-width on the editor.
| width | max-width | neither | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pros | WYSIWYG out of your printer | [desktop] WYSIWYG out of your printer | |
| Cons | [mobile] Crammed, or you have to scroll | [desktop] Leads to the impression that the document has constant width | [desktop] Very wide documents are ugly |
| Responsive layout is cool and html is good at it | [desktop] hard to layout, e.g., a right-floating image |
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ferndot commentedon Dec 3, 2014
I think that the width should only apply to document formats that are intended to be paginated, such as ODT and DOCX. Other formats, such as HTML and plain text, might not be improved by this change.
Your
widthsuggestion appears to be the best approach for desktop devices. Mobile is more difficult. How do popular mobile word processors like Documents to Go and Microsoft Office implement this?[UPDATE] Apparently, Documents to Go does not have a set page width or pagination.
twiss commentedon Dec 3, 2014
Google Docs, Microsoft Office Mobile, Zoho Docs and Quip all also don't have a
width, except Zoho Docs in read mode (i.e. before you press "edit").ferndot commentedon Dec 3, 2014
So,
max-widthmight be the best approach.twiss commentedon Dec 3, 2014
Notes about #241:
ferndot commentedon Dec 3, 2014
Should we default to a max-width for HTML?
twiss commentedon Dec 3, 2014
Well, I'm not sure, it's just that any document at 1920px width looks awful. Also, often when you're writing a document, you want it to look exactly like this, and don't care about responsive design aficionados.
Why do prefer no
max-widthfor html?ferndot commentedon Dec 4, 2014
I guess it depends on our objective. If we want the HTML format to primarily be a "document" format, then the
max-widthis a good choice. For use cases like #214, themax-widthmight not be beneficial.That might solve our dilemma!
Merge pull request #241 from twiss/editor-width
ferndot commentedon Dec 14, 2014
@twiss: does this sound good?
For new html files:
max-widthFor opened html files:
max-widthdefined in the filesAdditionally, we may want to provide two different html "formats": document (
max-width, etc...) and developer (vanilla HTML). And, we might want to put these into templates so that we don't have to include them in the JS.