Width of page issues

[Jason Clark]

Zepper, the main site has been 1024 for over a year. From the surveys we did an extremely high percentage of readers were at 1024.

This has nothing to do with the "less fortunate' it was a decision based on how many people were running 1024 and screen real estate required for site content, ads etc.

And no we are not getting rid of the side menu, it is staying as ads are embedded in it. It looks a whole lot better than it used to and provides functionality that most people require and enjoy.

P.S 640x480 as a standard was gone over a year ago...it is 800x600 now and higher.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
I have tested this in ie6, firefox, mozilla. As long as nothing else is on either side and your are running 1024 there are NO horizontal bars.

Can you test with Opera as well?

 

[Jason Clark]

MDE, I did.

 

[Dennis Travis]

Jason, I went even farther, On the Pc in Windows XP used Mozilla, IE, Opera, Firefox, Firebird, Netscape. On the Pc under Linux Suse 9 Pro used every browser and even installed Firefox and Opera besides what is there, on the Mac under OSX Panther Safari and Firefox and Opera, All look perfect here. Not one problem on all I tested which pretty much covers every major browser on every major OS used in the home. It looks GREAT at 1024x768 with no issues at all.

Just thought I would let you know. I don't know why others are having problems but all I can say it's fine here and with every browser out there.

...Dennis

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
MDE, I did.

Then what setting could cause this? I'm not doubting that you tested it, but it's hard to believe that when I've had this problem even after formatting my drive and reinstalling a fresh copy of Opera.

 

[Jason Clark]

Oper 7.23 without the ridiculous left hand menu garbage... and i tried 1024 no horizontal scrolling.

 

[50]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark

And no we are not getting rid of the side menu, it is staying as ads are embedded in it. It looks a whole lot better than it used to and provides functionality that most people require and enjoy.

I don't think thats the main concern of most people. Most people want the drop down menu back (like me!).At least give us one on the bottom or top. I would also like to know some statistics since you added the "AT feeling" to the top. How many people actually click those AT article links at the top of the screen?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: 50

Originally posted by: Jason Clark

And no we are not getting rid of the side menu, it is staying as ads are embedded in it. It looks a whole lot better than it used to and provides functionality that most people require and enjoy.

I don't think thats the main concern of most people. Most people want the drop down menu back (like me!).At least give us one on the bottom or top. I would also like to know some statistics since you added the "AT feeling" to the top. How many people actually click those AT article links at the top of the screen?

I went back to the main site for the first time in a long time (excluding FaQs) the other day because of those buttons.

 

[Slickone]

Jason, I thought I'd wait a few days and hope the width issue would get fixed, but it still hasn't been. I know you've tested with several browsers and didn't experience the problem some of us are having. So I'm wondering, is that that, or are you still trying to find the reason for the problem? We do believe you that it works correctly for you, but I hope you believe us as well. I can overlook all the other little 'problems', but this one is really annoying (to me). Is there anything else we can do to help you fix it short of debugging code? Thanks

 

[Confused]

Jason, I don't know exactly what it is, but I have tried this in 4 installations of Firebird/Firefox, and they all do the same. It is getting really annoying, especially as this is something that worked fine before the downgrade, and now it doesn't.

If you load that link I put in the very first post in IE, it will wrap the URL in the second post. However, in all my installations of Firebird/Firefox, that URL does not wrap round, it is all posted on one line, and it throws out the table width for the entire rest of the thread.

Even with my browser full-screen at 1600x1200, it still scrolls the entire thread.


The reason that you provided a few months ago as to why the table widths couldn't be changed when someone had a long username, is that the tables for each post are loaded in individually, which allows messages in the thread to be displayed while others are loading, therefore making it so that you don't have to wait for everything to download before it will show anything. I can only imagine that this must have changed, however you are not providing any information one way or the other as to whether this is still the case, or whether it has changed (i imagine it has, due to that god-awful bar between each post?).


This is really making the forum unusable, and unviewable at times, because I have to scroll left/right to read each line for each post when someone has copy/pasted a link directly.


Garry

 

[klah]

Mozilla will only line-break links at spaces. IE line-breaks links at many more characters.