Template talk:Indy 500
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[edit] Chief Stewards
Frankly, I'd prefer to see the chief stewards removed from the template. But, if we're gonna have 'em, I think they should be separated from the IMS owners. Also, that crotchety old man Harlan Fengler should really be mentioned.--Mycroft.Holmes 03:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Format of Year Links
Having 20-year segments on a line looks funky at certain browser widths - at the width my browser happens to be at at the moment, it has 1910-1928 on one line, then 1929 on a line all its own; 1930-1948 on one line, then 1949 on a line all its own; etc. I'm being bold and merging it all into a single line, and letting the user's broswer determine where to put line breaks. (Also removing the unnecessary, unlinked 1910.) If anyone has a better formatting suggestion, go ahead. Chuck 13:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- I don't have the numbers handy, but I'd venture that the majority of monitors/browser winders are plenty wide to hold the 20-wide list of years. It looks a lot like the one from the World Series template, and looks nice and clean all lined up. I think the SUper Bowl template is a "self-wrapping" one, and it's messy, hard to read. Doctorindy 02:49, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
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- Shouldn't we be designing for as many browsers/windows sizes as possible, and not be satsified with merely a "majority" of browsers? Not to mention that the part of my browser that actually displays the page is ~920 pixels wide, beyond the 800 pixels generally considered minimal for web design. Here's what the two versions look like in my window:
- With 20-year lines
- With a single line, auto-wrapped
- Which do you think looks nicer?
- As far as the Super Bowl Template, that lines up poorly because of the Roman numerals, which vary in width from year to year, and not directly because of the self-wrapping - it would look just as ugly with a fixed number of years on each line. Here, where we have only Arabic numerals, and every year is the same width, that's not a problem. Chuck 23:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Have taken a different approach: 10-year lines. How about this? Chuck 15:07, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
