PG previously added a fix I suggested that, at least in FF2, had the nice quality of clipping
PRE areas to whatever your browser width is, while enabling a horizontal scrollbar
for the PRE when you moused in.
Unfortunately, this never worked quite right in other browsers, and doesn't work in FF3.
In my experiments, the only way to get the same desirable effect in FF3 is with a DIV-based
layout. (There might be some DOCTYPE voodoo that would make it work with TABLEs, but I haven't
found it.)
So as far as I can tell: the best fix requires a change to the News.YC/arc HTML generation.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=229095
PG previously added a fix I suggested that, at least in FF2, had the nice quality of clipping PRE areas to whatever your browser width is, while enabling a horizontal scrollbar for the PRE when you moused in.
Unfortunately, this never worked quite right in other browsers, and doesn't work in FF3. In my experiments, the only way to get the same desirable effect in FF3 is with a DIV-based layout. (There might be some DOCTYPE voodoo that would make it work with TABLEs, but I haven't found it.)
So as far as I can tell: the best fix requires a change to the News.YC/arc HTML generation.