I generally try to keep the code behind the corpus pages and their various features as simple as possible. I’m not into using flashy gimmicks or the like. My preference is; the fewer lines of CSS and Javascript the better.

But a major issue with these tablets is that the lines are very looooong, which leads to a lot of horizontal scrolling even on a big monitor. And the scrolling is really just the browser page scrolling, because the images don’t fit. So the line and tablet information quickly disappears, and you’re left looking at a long line of glyphs and wondering whether you even have the correct line in front of you.

So I finally (after what, 15 years?) got around to tweaking things, just a little bit. So now the pages in the corpus are arranged in such a fashion that any long lines will scroll within the page, and the line, side, and tablet information stays on the screen. No more looking at the end of a long line and wondering which line you are actually looking at! Also each line scrolls individually now. And it really wasn’t that hard. I should have done this long ago…