From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 09:35:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] more archives of this list
Message-ID: <20160805093544.scvl4yshkfg2l26p@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160805092805.w3nwv2l6jkbuwlzf@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:28:05AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:48:13AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > Very much a work-in-progress, but NNTP and HTTP/HTTPS sorta work
> > based on stuff that is on gmane and stuff I'm accumulating by
> > being a subscriber.
> 
> I checked this out when you posted it, and have been using it the past
> few weeks. I really like it. I find the URL structure much easier to
> navigate than gmane.
> 
> I do find it visually a little harder to navigate through threads,
> because there's not much styling there, and the messages seem to run
> into one another. I don't know if a border around the divs or something
> would help. I'm really terrible at that kind of visual design.

I took a peek at doing something simple like:

  pre {
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    background: #dddddd;
  }

but it looks like there's no HTML structure at all to the current
output. It's just one big <pre> tag with various levels of indentation
to represent the messages.

So I guess a potential first step would be actually representing a
thread as:

  <div class="message">
    parent message...
    <div class="message">
      reply...
    </div>
  </div>

and so on.

-Peff