Re: Threadview for messages: really cool but big flaw

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jonathan S. Katz
<jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jonathan S. Katz
>> <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> wrote:
>>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just noticed the nifty "threadview" drop-down on each message in the
>>>>> archives, which would really make my life a lot easier as CFM ... except
>>>>> that it's unreadable for long threads.  Look here for example:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqTAfWy_VY6PKdM_eg7snG9Z2+MAH+N85FW7AGDNgUmqsw@mail.gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> The basic issue is that, on a long discussion thread, indenting pushes
>>>>> the thread off the right side of the page.  What if we just removed the
>>>>> indenting?
>>>>
>>>> Probably would be better to set the CSS property "overflow-x" to "auto" as opposed to hidden - that way we can
keepthe indenting to show the progression of the thread but we can still scroll and see the info.
 
>>>
>>> Here is a patch for exactly that.  This is in the pgarchives project
>>
>> Hmm. Can we find a way to do that that doesn't actually modify the
>> jquery-ui code? That's going to be a PITA for upgrades. Surely there
>> should be a way to override it form our own stylesheets?
>
> Revision attached.

Applied, thanks.

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