"Last post" dates and times

[MrPhil]

May I offer a suggestion to improve the appearance of SMF? If you look at the "Last post" column, "Today" and "Yesterday" fit on one line, while any full date (except perhaps May dates, in English), are just long enough to cause a wrap around to a second line. For March and April dates (English), you get just the "AM" or "PM" on the second line, which looks scruffy. Adding a few pixels to the width of the column would help for some months, but others (longer month names) will still wrap. How about replacing blanks with   within the date and within the time formats? This would keep the time all in one piece, if it's going to wrap around anyway, and looks better and is easier to read.

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April 06, 2010, 11:52:17 AM

Are there any cases where the date is so long (browser and font combination, or other languages) that it needs to be allowed to split up and wrap around? If so, you might want to skip the  's in the date portion of the format. If it looks good in this forum, it should be the suggested default for SMF.

[Kindred]

it looks fine on my width screens....

[Arantor]

Fine for me on 1280x1024 on Chrome. I would be asking what browser/resolution combination this is needed on...

[MrPhil]

FF 3.6.2 full screen on 1024x768 display (yeah, these days that's old and tiny, but I'm not tossing a working graphics adapter and display). Win XP if that matters. For "April x, 2010, hh:mm:ss xM" timestamps, the "AM" or "PM" is always by itself on the second line. Simply putting a   between the time and the "AM", instead of a space, would keep the time all together on all displays -- better looking and easier to read, as if a second line is necessary, the full time stays together.