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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:38:42 -0500
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Subject: Re: Censorship in php
From: dsp@php.net (David Soria Parra)

Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> schrieb:
> I know I will get my head chewed off, but I'm going to speak out anyway ...
>
> In a world where 'fixed width' web style is pushed as the standard, the PHP site 
> has always been a breath of fresh air with it's full width style. It used to 
> work nicely on wide format monitors which I'm sure many of you use on your 
> development systems. If the 'change of style' has been discussed anywhere, I've 
> not seen that discussion but that is not unusual nowadays as all these little 
> cliques seem to work off-line and then dump the results on us. The new 
> 'feedback' area seems to be hosted elsewhere anyway?
>
> The 'style' of having voting only FOR something without the ability to object, 
> and the blocking of the alternate view is simply not acceptable. How many votes 
> would 'hate it' get if it was not blocked?
>
> But what is even more irritating here is the fact that we have the technology to 
> provide all of the flexibility for both styles of working to co-exist. That is 
> what PHP is all about, so why when all of the content is dynamic anyway do we 
> have to live with what is perceived by a few as better. Currently I'm having 
> problems with something which was never a problem ... changing between 
> sub-domains also needs a change of font size to make the site usable on my 
> 3840x1200 desktop.
>
> PLEASE can we have 'theme' as a selection in the same way that 'language' can be 
> changed. This is simply a lot more practical than the attempt to create a 
> 'responsive' style that is a compromise on virtually all desktops :(

Your constant complains have been noticed. Please refer to the right
mailinglist with the right attitude. In addition to that I highly
recommend sending patches over constant ranting and keeping away people
from doing actual work.  Communities like PHP are here to WORK together
on a problem and the people who work on it (or any surrounding noteable
projects) discuss it. If you don't have anything to contribute write a
blog entry about it, but internal is not the right place for you rants. I
am not sure if I have to get any clearer about that. Thank you.