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alpiner
Nov 26, 2003, 6:08 PM
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How about forcing a fixed width column for all the forums? It's the long links people post that make many threads a lousy read. Having to scroll horizontally, then back, then forward, then back, etc sucks big time. As it is, your page width is much wider than almost any other web site. The black column on the left is just wasted space.
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thomasribiere
Nov 26, 2003, 6:43 PM
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In reply to: As it is, your page width is much wider than almost any other web site. we have so many things to say! But scrolling horizontaly is boring, that's right. Anyway, for my screen, the width just fit perfectly (16'' of true diagonal).
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overlord
Nov 28, 2003, 10:28 AM
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mine too. try changing your screen resolution to 1024x768
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antigrav
Dec 7, 2003, 7:36 AM
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A change seems to me to have occurred in the last few (3-4-5?) days. Now I must use a screen size of 1600x1200 to avoid scrolling horizontally... It's pretty awful... Why not put a setting in each users profile, to wrap or not wrap, at some number of characters? Shouldn't be that hard, and would help immensely...
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ropeburn
Dec 7, 2003, 9:02 AM
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I noticed this as well. Post bodys don't wrap correctly. As such scroll bars are displayed, scroll bars inside main window scroll bars suck. I wonder what changed? :mrgreen:
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climbingnurse
Dec 7, 2003, 5:35 PM
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Tim. Thanks! From a former IT worker. I know how hard your job is and how underappreciated it is.
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tim
Dec 7, 2003, 8:03 PM
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Got it! Using a dynamically generated DIV tag with a STYLE attribute of a fixed width like so: it turns out that I get the properties of the active window (as opposed to the screen's width) which seems to work well across modern browsers. It probably still looks like shit in Netscape 4.x, but thankfully relatively few people are using a browser that old. More importantly, it does still render, which I'm not sure any of the other possible solutions would do.
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xanx
Dec 7, 2003, 9:22 PM
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Thanks Tim!!
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rjtrials
Dec 7, 2003, 11:53 PM
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Once again Tim, You Rule!! RJ
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eric
Dec 8, 2003, 12:30 AM
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In reply to: Got it! Using a dynamically generated DIV tag with a STYLE attribute of a fixed width like so: I'm sorry, I think I'm going to be sick.
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