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As the title says....
[[Special:Contributions/188.222.184.114|188.222.184.114]] ([[User talk:188.222.184.114|talk]]) 03:44, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
== The 'Editor features' table is too wide ==
The ''''Editor features'''' table is too wide to display correctly on my system; I'm using the latest Firefox, with the option "''Allow pages to choose their own fonts instead of my selections''" selected. Specifically, the rightmost column, ''''Form Handler'''', fails to show on screen unless I take extraordinary measures, such as editing the page.
I discovered that changing the ''wikitable'' style from font size '''90%''' down to '''82%''' (but nothing larger, say 83%) would fix the problem for me. However, that text size is too small for easy reading even by normally-sighted persons, and I feel that perhaps the table is simply too wide overall. I inspected the headings, which are the widest elements in most columns, but we can't shorten them much without making them harder to understand.
So I have the following questions:
#Could we '''format the table differently''' to convey the same information but in a narrower form? (E.g. by rotating the column headings 90% anti-clockwise, to become vertical.)
#Why not '''drop the 'Form Handler' column''', since we only have definite information for one of the editors listed?
#Is there a ''Wikipedia formatting standard'' or ''style guide'' that governs '''minimum acceptable text sizes''', keeping in mind the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) standards for [[web usability]] by all users, regardless of their physical abilities?
#Similarly, is there a ''Wikipedia standard'' on '''maximum table widths'''? (We need to keep in mind that many readers now access Wikipedia primarily or only on tablets and smartphones, with very limited screen area.)
[[User:Yahya Abdal-Aziz|yoyo]] ([[User talk:Yahya Abdal-Aziz|talk]]) 01:04, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
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