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I just spent over an hour going through Arecee's Show Me The Money! line by line, both in and out of the editor, trying to find what was causing it to be overly wide -- the problem that makes folks have to scroll their window left and right to read it instead of just scrolling down -- which was pointed out by one of the users.
After determining that it wasn't the story itself, I turned to the table Arecee had written/coded for the headers of the story. |
| That wasn't it, either. Then I noticed that it was only having the over-wide problem when it was submitted and not in the Preview of the story.
"Waitaminnit, self!" I sez to myself, "Then it must be a problem with the comments!" This was, unfortunately for me, only 2 minutes before I started writing this blog. You see, one of the users that included a picture in their comment uses a picture that is much wider than the onscreen page width, but forgot to set the picture to a width that would fit. So that is what was making the side-to-side scroll. It was a comment from 2008. And we just caught it. Oops. Well, we don't typically go looking for comments that are making the story difficult to read through, so until it was pointed out, we couldn't have found it. I set the width of the photo, and the problem was solved. I'm rather amused at myself for spending so much time finding a problem -- when if I had scrolled down the entire page first, I'd have found it and saved myself an hour. As medieval Homer Simpson would say: D'oh-eth! My request (finally) is this: If you notice suddenly the page needs to scroll side-to-side instead of just down... let me or one of the other Codemonkeys know. It may not be your comment, it may be the story and you just didn't notice until the comment was posted. It may be another comment posted at the same time as yours. It may be you're not commenting at all but notice it. Please, just let us know so we can fix it as soon as possible. I know it interrupts the flow of the story for me, when it doesn't have to because it can be easily fixed. |
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Edeyn Hannah Blackeney The Infamous Intersex Transgender Asian Lesbian Atheist Chick of the Ozarks |
| Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make... |
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Edeyn, I am an idiot >_>
I noticed this two days ago, but I completely forgot to PM you about it. Sorree! >_>
In my defense, this has been one of those roller coaster weeks, but I'll try and at least make a post-it to myself next time :-D
Another thing
I suppose it's a minor gripe but I almost never read any of you posts - it's a miracle I read this one. Why? because you choose to use a small script that I find difficult to read. I may be alone but then again perhaps not.
Robi
Actually, fonts are stored in your computer, not downloaded...
It may well be that the fonts selected by the author are being interpreted by your local machine in strange ways. It's very difficult to create a font "stack" that doesn't go to pieces under certain conditions. In many cases, the safest thing is to use the "default" (that is, no font specification at all) because most people will have their own default font set to some readable value for themselves.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
That may be true ...
... in fact I'm sure it is. My programming experience is generally confined to writing assembler (and a bit of 'C') to run on systems in which I knew how every piece of code worked. I know little about the memory hungry stuff written for PCs. However it's only Edyn's posts that uses a small, hard to read font, all the rest is fine. I'm not going to bother to find the cause - I have too few years left to live as it is ;)
Robi
I'm pretty sure it's a font stack problem...
Because Edyn's posts always appear in what to me is a huge font, bigger than everything else in any thread.
Cheers,
Puddin'
What you see on the Web isn't necessarily what anyone else in the world gets.
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
And another thing
If possible, upload the picture you want to use in your post to the site, because that will automatically re-size it to a reasonable width and at the same time make it easier for those with dial-up or other low-speed access to read BC postings.
Adjusting the display size by setting width and height attributes only makes a picture look smaller. It's still the same size in bytes, and will take just as long to load.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
What's a Codemonkey?
One that's been in the freether.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Achoo!
Gesundheit
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We often type LOL when we don't
That is, we'll type, "LOL," meaning Laugh-Out-Loud when we're online, and we really aren't doing so.
This time I did. It struck me at just the right point and I was talking to mah baybee in Australia over Skype. My sudden descent into being unable to talk -- or even breathe -- due to laughing so hard worried her for a moment or three.
I wrote the frigin thing
And don't have a clue as to what you're talking about. That's why they call me Mr. Computer. why you ask? Because everytime I call someone about another mistake I made they always reference me as, yep that dunce, Mr. Computer. Thanks Edeyn, Arecee