Re: [Bodington-developers] Top frame styling improvement - commited to HEAD

[Antony C. <an...@sm...>]

The title of the resource will still appear in full at the top of the  
resource page, this is just truncation for navigation div - the method  
could truncate at a reasonably logical place I guess!

On 22 Jun 2006, at 11:15, Matthew Buckett wrote:

> Antony Corfield wrote:
>> How about a much simpler approach?!! Just add a method 'public static
>> String trimText(String text, int maxLength)' to
>> org.bodington.util.TextUtils and use that whenever there's a limited
>> space for displaying text? Could always use title attribute in link to
>> display full text. As I said we've also removed search and links from
>> the navigation div so we have more space to play with.
>
> If we are going to truncate peoples titles we should decide where we
> normally truncate and tell people so that they can try and have shorter
> titles so they are aware where it would be truncated.
>
> 30 characters?
>
> Even in our default install we have titles of 50+ characters ( User
> Administration for System Administration zone. ).
>
> I don't think actually limiting people to only 30 characters is  
> sensible.
>
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