Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 3/8] gitweb: right-align date cell in shortlog

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:49:52 +0200

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Fri, 26 June 2009, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> 2009/6/26 Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>:

>>> Last, and most important: I don't agree with this change.  In my
>>> opinion it does not improve layout (and you didn't provide support
>>> for this change).  Right-align justification should be sparingly,
>>> as it is not natural in left-to-right languages.
>> 
>> Of course, in my opinion it does improve layout.

[..]
> Compare:
>   15 min ago
>   6 hours ago
>   10 hours ago
>   2 days ago
>   2 weeks ago
>   6 months ago
>   2009-06-12
> with
>     15 min ago
>    6 hours ago
>   10 hours ago
>     2 days ago
>    2 weeks ago
>   6 months ago
>     2009-06-12

It looks IMHO even worse if, because of limited screen width, 'date'
column needs to be wrapped.  See

  6 months
  ago

versus

   6 months
        ago

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland