12-02-2005 03:54									#1
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Why do the forum pages seem to be getting wider and wider?

Poly used to fit quite well into my browser window (except when people posted huge images, but that's to be expected).

Now I have to extend my window almost all the way across the screen to read posts. Otherwise I get a scrollbar at the bottom and I have to go left and right. I use 1024x768 which is not an unreasonable resolution to use.

Is there any way we can configure our accounts so that the forums will scale to a smaller window?

OK -- scratch that. It works OK in this thread, but not some others. Hmmm.

Damn - as soon as I edited this post it went back to being crap again. Grr..

	12-02-2005 04:00									#2
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I think we had this discussion a few years. IIRC I thought the forums did scale depending on your resolution, but you'd be better waiting for one of the admins to fill you in about it.

	12-02-2005 04:00									#3
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Use 1280x1024

	12-02-2005 04:13									#4
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My computer is old, it won't scale up to that.

What is annoying is that it will change depending on which page you are looking at. That's what is annoying, since I have to keep changing window size (admittedly that just involves pressing the green button, but it is annoying).

How about an option to display Poly at a specific size.? Is that feasible?

Here is normal for me so you can see what I mean. In this pic, it's OK. But it will change depending on page.

Attachment: picture 1.jpg
This has been downloaded 246 time(s).

	12-02-2005 04:25									#5
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Poly is the only forum that this happens to me on.

Does it have something to do with the way people are inputting text?

	12-02-2005 07:18									#6
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agathon, from the screenshot that i see, what you can do is change your date format
it's really long....

	12-02-2005 08:56									#7
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Thanks. I tried since then and have changed it to the shortest one possible. I am still puzzled. I will try changing theme.

	12-02-2005 09:00									#8
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I've changed to the default theme and that seems to have fixed it.

I remember why I changed from that. I can never remember what the buttons do. I'm dumb: I need the names.

This thread can be deleted now. No post count increases for frivolous questions!!!

	12-02-2005 16:43									#9
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I have 1600x1200 and always seem to have a scroll bar with only max. 1 mm possible scrolling lenght... No problem though, but it is a bit weird...

	12-02-2005 18:52									#10
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There's a difference between how the different forum styles handle attachments, which is rather annoying...

On the Default style, all posts have the same width, so if one person posts a wide image attachment, the entire page becomes unreadable on lower screen resolutions.

On the Default-Special and Default-Ultra-Special styles, all posts have their own width, so an image attachment will only affect the width of that one post, not the entire page.

There are two ways to fix this: (1) change the behavior of the post tables in the Default style to that of the other styles, or (2) reduce the maximum width for attached images. 600 pixels works nicely.

	12-02-2005 19:09									#11
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The width limit for attached images is fine. It's hotlinked images which can be more than 600 pixels. I guess it's possible to force them to be scaled down.

	12-02-2005 19:32									#12
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Yes, that's true...

quote: Originally posted by Nikolai I have 1600x1200 and always seem to have a scroll bar with only max. 1 mm possible scrolling lenght... No problem though, but it is a bit weird...

That's because of the "Go(N)" button next to the news drop-down box at the top of each forum page. It's just a tad too far to the right.

This can be fixed quite easily, though. The news form table cell should be changed to align left.

I've tested it in Opera 7.54, IE6.0 and Firefox 1.0. The only thing it changes is that Firefox no longer gets the annoying horizontal scrollbar.

	12-02-2005 20:42									#13
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quote: I've tested it in Opera 7.54, IE6.0 and Firefox 1.0. The only thing it changes is that Firefox no longer gets the annoying horizontal scrollbar.

That'd be really nice as it is a waste of space.
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Also the "GO" button next to the forum jump listbox keeps changing places.
Sometimes it's next to it on the right, other times it's beneath it to the left. ( which I actually prefer. The closer to the centre the better IMHO.)

	12-02-2005 23:13									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator Yes, that's true... That's because of the "Go(N)" button next to the news drop-down box at the top of each forum page. It's just a tad too far to the right. This can be fixed quite easily, though. The news form table cell should be changed to align left. I've tested it in Opera 7.54, IE6.0 and Firefox 1.0. The only thing it changes is that Firefox no longer gets the annoying horizontal scrollbar.

How does one do this for Firefox?

	13-02-2005 00:34									#15
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I get that in Firefox and Camino, but not Safari, so it must be a Gecko thing.

	13-02-2005 01:45									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Verto How does one do this for Firefox?

It's something MarkG/DanQ should change in the HTML source to fix it.

	13-02-2005 04:01									#17
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Oh, I thought those were settings one could make in their browser.

	13-02-2005 17:29									#18
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In this thread, of all threads, I get a horizontal scollbar. Go figure.

	13-02-2005 22:48									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist In this thread, of all threads, I get a horizontal scollbar. Go figure.

It's Agathon's screen shot.

	13-02-2005 23:57									#20
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And what a sexy screenshot it is.

	14-02-2005 18:28									#21
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Nothing with Japher on it could possibly be sexy

	21-02-2005 07:10									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator Yes, that's true... That's because of the "Go(N)" button next to the news drop-down box at the top of each forum page. It's just a tad too far to the right. This can be fixed quite easily, though. The news form table cell should be changed to align left. I've tested it in Opera 7.54, IE6.0 and Firefox 1.0. The only thing it changes is that Firefox no longer gets the annoying horizontal scrollbar.

Is it possible to ask for this to be fixed?

I'm almost at the point of becoming a dedicated Firefox user, especially on Apolyton, because of the excellent BBCode extension.

The horizontal scrollbar is kinda annoying, and unlike my other browsers, there's nothing I can do to stop it.

	21-02-2005 16:26									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Use 1280x1024

1600x1200

	21-02-2005 18:41									#24
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100x100

	21-02-2005 20:56									#25
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You really need to move the Go (N) button left a bit, it's the thing causing the horizontal scroll bar.

	21-02-2005 21:24									#26
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I've analyzed this a big more, and I'm pretty sure this is a Gecko rendering issue. I've reduced the testcase to a handful of lines and reported the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283023

I've also found a workaround:

Right after the code for the banner ads, change:

code:
<Table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 border=0><Tr><Td align=right nowrap>

code:
<Table cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 border=0><Tr><Td align=right nowrap>

	21-02-2005 21:59									#27
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I have the same problem, agathon

	22-02-2005 09:19									#28
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Turns out this bug is very old: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83330

	22-02-2005 18:51									#29
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Asher not having the background to tackle this.

	22-02-2005 19:44									#30
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Mozilla's codebase is too unwieldy to get a grip on in any reasonable time, especially when I'm addicted to World of Warcraft.