On Nov 17, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
On 11/17/09 3:17 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Nov 17, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
On 11/17/09 2:59 PM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:
Last but not least, rather than "text usually looks good" I'd like to see an explanation + examples of pages showing how justifying text will make XWiki easier to use for its users (will it make reading faster? will it make pages look more consistent and thus easier to grok by users?). Until then I'm not convinced it's a good change.
To summarize: in most cases justify won't bring much value and it's less flexible and causes more issues than align left. I won't change my mind unless I see how it makes reading more effective on a production wiki with "real life" text.
It's not a matter of which one is "easier to use for its users" - the alignment of the text is more of a layout integration / consistency.
Justify is usually more formal and yes looks great in prints and large texts. Since XWiki is a platform and doesn't not means just large quantities of text, I agree we can make it back to left aligment for the web, because apparently left align is more spread in this area.
How about having p justify aligned when we print the page or export it (to pdf for ex)?
Having a global "Presentation" preference in the administration to easily allow making paragraph justified could be interesting, WDYT?
I think it might be overkill (and would add unnecessary complexity). Especially since this can be done easily using a SSX, right?
Yes SSX "mod" is the alternative.
BTW making SSX/JSX "mods" avail on code.xwiki.org would be good. -Vincent
Jerome.
I haven't seen anyone asking for this so I doubt we need it right now.
Thanks -Vincent