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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.


thomasribiere


Nov 26, 2003, 6:43 PM
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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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Nov 28, 2003, 10:28 AM
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mine too.

try changing your screen resolution to 1024x768


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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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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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Dec 7, 2003, 5:14 PM
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How about forcing a fixed width column for all the forums?

The page width is supposed to end up as 100%. PhpBB is the only component of the site that disregards that.

The column on the left carries ads that make us money. Like it or not, that is not wasted space in my book. It pays for the server.


I've been working on this all weekend. I hate scrolling. The obstacle is that we use templates (and so does phpBB) and I'm having issues figuring out where the hell to force the phpBB table to be (screen.width - 150).

Soon as that happens, it'll be done. The large-links problem is separate; that's going into a combination text filter that I wrote to tear out bogus html, (optionally) explicit language, and truncate huge URLs to 80 chars.

Remember, not only am I reading this stuff, I'm also working on fixing the code. That makes it at least twice as frustrating for me.


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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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...

I love it when people suggest things like this that are not only labor-intensive on the users' part, but also disregard the ability of modern browsers to take into account the size of the window...

Suffice to say that the above suggestion is a bit less elegant in practice than it sounds on paper. I've almost got the width issue nailed down (there's an obvious glitch in the HTML being produced, which I'm fixing in the template), and then I'll roll out URL/nonsense-text truncation.


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Tim. Thanks! From a former IT worker. I know how hard your job is and how underappreciated it is.

Job? This is just a hobby. Google actually pays me.


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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:

Code
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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Thanks Tim!!


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Once again Tim,

You Rule!!


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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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