Re: [ft-devel] Browsing API docs locally, and other updates

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Reducing indentation of the left column is OK for long field names,
> but other tables with small field names look off-centered.

OK.

>> On the other hand: Does CSS (or JavaScript?) allow a different
>> layout if the left-side entries are very long?  For example, it
>> could change to
>>
>>     FOO_BAR_BAZ_FROBNICATE
>>
>>       blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla blablablaba bla blubb
>>       bla bla blabla blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla
>>       blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla
>
> This is interesting. My idea is to append a class name like "long"
> to field tables having names longer that maybe 30 characters.  Then
> I can use CSS to add specific styles to that table, so that it looks
> like what you describe.
>
> See the attached images for an idea of how these tables will look
> like. Note that other tables remain unaffected.

Very nice!  We have to check whether this is OK as a whole; for
example it might look better if we drop the two-column layout
completely: I could imagine to consistently use

     FOO    blablablaba  bla  blubb  bla bla  blabla  blablablaba  bla
       blubb-blubb  bla  bla  blabla  blablablaba bla  blubb  bla  bla
       blablabla blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla blablabla blabla
       bla blubb bla bla blabla

     BAR    urgh slosh zip

or 

     FOO    blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla blablablaba bla
       blubb-blubb bla bla blabla blablablaba bla blubb bla bla
       blablabla blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla blablabla blabla
       bla blubb bla bla blabla

     BAR    urgh slosh zip

or

     FOO    blablablaba  bla  blubb  bla bla  blabla  blablablaba  bla
     blubb-blubb  bla  bla  blabla   blablablaba  bla  blubb  bla  bla
     blablabla blablablaba  bla blubb bla bla  blabla blablabla blabla
     bla blubb bla bla blabla

     BAR    urgh slosh zip

or

     FOO    blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla blablablaba bla
     blubb-blubb bla bla blabla blablablaba bla blubb bla bla
     blablabla blablablaba bla blubb bla bla blabla blablabla blabla
     bla blubb bla bla blabla

     BAR    urgh slosh zip


  Werner