Does anyone know how can I contribute to this documentation site? This entire site is so much more readable if you just put a max-width of about 800px on the container div.
Report issues on the sqlite-users mailing list. The SQLite team are very careful about accepting contributions, and have signed contribution papers. They generally don't accept outside code, because they do very thorough testing so completed code needs accompanying complete test code too. They are also fanatical about backwards compatibility.
I run my browser at half my laptop's screen width. It's ironic that I have to turn off styles (Firefox: View/Page Style/No Style) so that I can read the page without horizontal scrolling back and forth.
But more fundamentally, as a free service, I wonder how they can afford the server and storage resources needed for this (it's not in their FAQ).
I'm not a member, so I don't know what their logged in pages look like, nor their readability-ized pages. But I doubt if advertising is paying the bills.
The next obvious thing is some kind of analytics. "People who read this also read that." Sold to whoever can use such information.
Or maybe it's a charitable effort. Or maybe they expect to be sold, I don't know.
I'm not bashing them at all, but I am becoming much more critical, privacy-wise, of everything I touch on the web. I'm always asking, subconsciously at least, "what's in it for them?"
Similarly, I'm looking up at my toolbar, and wondering what's in it for the people who made my addons for Ghostery, Disconnect and UBo. They would seem to be sitting on a goldmine of analytics.
Dunno. But my web experience feels much more adversarial today than it did in the early nineties.
If you prefer a narrower view, why not just resize your browser window to be more narrow? Some of us find full-width text more readable, and artificially constrained viewports are not something we can easily resize.
