pm: Parker, random question..

[pm]

How come you don't have horizontal scroll bars in this frame?

[Parker]

> How come you don't have horizontal scroll
> bars in this frame?

I get a horizontal scrollbar when we have really long threads. Must be a browser thing.

I use Opera.

[stainless steel rat]

> I get a horizontal scrollbar when we have
> really long threads. Must be a browser
> thing.

> I use Opera.

Here is another question. On long threads, the post information (I am using IE on windows XP, but I also use netscape with linux) as it nears the right margin seems to stack vertically. IE my name might look like this:
stainless
steel
rat
etc...

one word per line. I would suggest doing like other message boards do and either not try to do that kind of indented wrapping and just let the browser have a really wide window to scroll back and forth on, or else stop indenting after (say) 6-7 responses on the same thread...

I assume all IE users are seeing this same sort of "presentation" (I am a linux user but have become used to using IE since microsoft is encouraging web site managers to use proprietary web design features that break netscape and mozilla/firebird, etc. Damned nice of them to do that...)

[mdlbj]

I am using Mozilla Firefox on Both XP and Fedora Linux, works great on both as far as scroll bars yet, I do see the one word per line issue. Being javascript based, one could find a one line fix for this Im sure.. check out webmonkey.com for great info and quick fixes for javascript related issues.

> Here is another question. On long threads,
> the post information (I am using IE on
> windows XP, but I also use netscape with
> linux) as it nears the right margin seems to
> stack vertically. IE my name might look like
> this:
> stainless
> steel
> rat
> etc...

> one word per line. I would suggest doing
> like other message boards do and either not
> try to do that kind of indented wrapping and
> just let the browser have a really wide
> window to scroll back and forth on, or else
> stop indenting after (say) 6-7 responses on
> the same thread...

> I assume all IE users are seeing this same
> sort of "presentation" (I am a
> linux user but have become used to using IE
> since microsoft is encouraging web site
> managers to use proprietary web design
> features that break netscape and
> mozilla/firebird, etc. Damned nice of them
> to do that...)

[mdlbj]

Or maybe the forum software adds a
tag if thread reaches x width.. Could remove that from config or Make the default font in the advantageplayer.css smaller??

> I am using Mozilla Firefox on Both XP and
> Fedora Linux, works great on both as far as
> scroll bars yet, I do see the one word per
> line issue. Being javascript based, one
> could find a one line fix for this Im sure..
> check out webmonkey.com for great info and
> quick fixes for javascript related issues.