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Just like on ScraperWiki Classic; now a part of QuickCode.
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Screen realestate gripe #117

Closed amandabee closed 9 years ago

amandabee commented 10 years ago

My viewport is only 760px high unless I hop into full screen, 900px in full screen.

That means I've got between 448 (in full screen) and 355px to code in. 125px is a lot to devote to the top bar while I'm coding, and even around the "Clear / Help / Report Bug" line there's a lot of padding. I'd love more screen efficiency for us laptop users!

zarino commented 10 years ago

Some stats, given a window 760px high (excluding browser chrome), and editing Python code:

Metric Code in your browser ScraperWiki Classic
Lines in view 18 lines 32 lines
Coding area height 379px 455px
Font size 16px 13px
Line height 21px 14.5px

The 125px toolbar and navbar at the top of the site don't help, but I think the real culprit is the size of the text. There are almost half as many lines visible at any one time as there used to be (down 46%), but the visible coding area has only shrunk by 17% (76px).

A text size of 13px on 15px would result in 25 lines being visible at any one time, which is more like it. But would it be detrimental to legibility?

@amandabee Do you think a smaller text size would help?

zarino commented 10 years ago

PS. Thanks for the feedback @amandabee :-)

amandabee commented 10 years ago

I'd still want more space to code in, even with smaller text.

Maybe something like git hub's Zen mode would help, too?

zarino commented 10 years ago

Have you thought about just using your own text editor and accessing your code using something like https://github.com/zarino/swbox ?

amandabee commented 10 years ago

I have a good python development environment. I use ScraperWiki to teach scraping and half the value is that it is all in the browser. My students are all mac users, I like that I can get them started w/zero installation.

Zarino Zappia notifications@github.com wrote:

Have you thought about just using your own text editor and accessing your code using something like https://github.com/zarino/swbox ?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/frabcus/code-scraper-in-browser-tool/issues/117#issuecomment-23115231

Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

zarino commented 10 years ago

Cool, thanks.