I agree that the single comment view has more boilerplate up top, but otherwise I’d say it usually fits on screens without any trouble.
I was curious about your comment so I took a look at the screenshot. You say in the bug report that you’re using a “fairly small font” setting but the font is being rendered much larger for you than I see using default IE9 and FF4 settings. Plus your picture shows the page with a serif font while the CSS specifies sans-serif. I’m not sure if it’s a browser issue or if you’re using custom settings, but in a 1600x900 view (as your screenshot size is), I can see the full comment without scrolling.
Mostly I’d like to know if other people “take 2 screens to see one permalinked comment” because I agree that reasonably short comments should be visible without scolling.
You don’t know the (physical) pixel size of gwern’s display.
Personally, I can see the first 2 lines of a comment without scrolling; over 2/3rds of the visible space below the site logo is haphazardly filled with links and buttons. It would be nice if it could be reduced to just the main site header, the “You are viewing a comment permalink...” line, then the comment itself.
I agree that the single comment view has more boilerplate up top, but otherwise I’d say it usually fits on screens without any trouble.
I was curious about your comment so I took a look at the screenshot. You say in the bug report that you’re using a “fairly small font” setting but the font is being rendered much larger for you than I see using default IE9 and FF4 settings. Plus your picture shows the page with a serif font while the CSS specifies sans-serif. I’m not sure if it’s a browser issue or if you’re using custom settings, but in a 1600x900 view (as your screenshot size is), I can see the full comment without scrolling.
Mostly I’d like to know if other people “take 2 screens to see one permalinked comment” because I agree that reasonably short comments should be visible without scolling.
You don’t know the (physical) pixel size of gwern’s display.
Personally, I can see the first 2 lines of a comment without scrolling; over 2/3rds of the visible space below the site logo is haphazardly filled with links and buttons. It would be nice if it could be reduced to just the main site header, the “You are viewing a comment permalink...” line, then the comment itself.