About http://mercurial.selenic.com/

[Stephen Morton]

> On Wed Apr 18 16:52:38 CDT 2012, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:02 +0200, Johan Holmberg wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The page http://mercurial.selenic.com/ has a "Quick Start" column to
> > the right. But for as long as I can remember my browsers (Firefox,
> > Safari and Chrome) fail to show the full text of the example. The
> > first line show up as something like:
> >
> >     $ hg clone http://selenic.com/re
> >
> > I had to use "View Source" in my browser to find out that it actually
> > is meant to show:
> >
> >     $ hg clone http://selenic.com/repo/hello
> >
> > It would be nice if this was fixed. This page is the top hit when I
> > google "mercurial", and it is a bit unfortunate that the example
> > "doesn't work".
>
> Well, from interacting with thousands of n00bs, I'm beginning to suspect
> the quickstart does more harm than good. Having people commit and merge
> without any mental model of the underlying DAG seems to cause lots of
> trouble.
>
> Seems to work for me on Firefox on Linux, Chrome exhibits the cut-off.
> This is apparently due to a disagreement on what font / point size to
> use.

I see the issue on Windows 7, 64-bit for every one of these. I fullscreen
the browsers and there would be plenty of room for the text.
   * Firefox 11,
   * IE 8,
   * Chrome 18, and
   * Opera 11.62.


Steve
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