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Screwed up Posting Scrolling????

SamMishalSamMishal Posts: 468
edited 2010-01-13 08:23 in Propeller 1
Hi Yall,

I noticed on several occasions that someone posts a posting on a thread that causes the whole
thread to FOIL the Browser....

Normally when you view a posting the threads FIT in the Browser WINDOW (Horizontally)and even
if you have a full screen or a resized window the posting will reformat so as to fit inside the browser
window.

However, some postings seem to do something or another (?????) that CONFUSES the browser
and it can no longer reformat the posting so as to fit in the window HORIZONTALLY.

You then end up having to SCROLL and SCROLL....half way to Russia as someone I cannot recall
who said a while back......???????nono.gifmad.gifsmhair.gif

WHAT IS IT.....what is it that these postings have that causes this VERY ANNOYING shakehead.gifmad.gifsmhair.gif
thing to happen..........

I think we should identify it and ask people to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE .....stop it from happening.
It is REALLY annoying to have to SCROLL and Scroll and scroll to·reach the end of the text but even
WORSE is also all the CONTROLS for the Forum are also put WAAAAY out there too.

Please can we all try and figure this MYSTERY out and post some solution and a PREVENTION too.

Can someone from Parallax HELP with this....pleeeeeeaaaasssseee

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Samuel

www.RobotBASIC.com


Post Edited (SamMishal) : 1/12/2010 5:21:57 PM GMT

Comments

  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-01-12 17:30
    This is caused by 1) images that are too wide, and 2) code blocks that are either too wide or have too many trailing spaces. I agree that it's bad form to post such things and have sometimes reminded the posters of them to pare their images/code blocks down a bit.

    BTW, I'm not sure why you posted this in the Propeller forum. Perhaps the moderators could move it to "Support for Using this Forum."

    -Phil
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2010-01-12 20:15
    It was probably my 'halfway to Russia' comment...

    Whenever I post anything anywhere using formatting that disallow scrolling(CODE or PRE tags, usually) I always view the thread myself afterwards, so that I can fix such mistakes.

    Also, my comment was the first response in a thread in the Propeller forum, so it's not entirely off-topic... wink.gif

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  • jrjrjrjr Posts: 22
    edited 2010-01-13 01:46
    It's been mentioned privately.

    The moderator said no solution was known or able to be implemented.

    Perhaps a deletion of the offending post until it's fixed would get the point across quick enough.

    jr
  • BradCBradC Posts: 2,601
    edited 2010-01-13 01:54
    jrjr said...

    Perhaps a deletion of the offending post until it's fixed would get the point across quick enough.

    That's a bit rough. What may not fit your screen comfortably might well fit mine.

    If it's excessive, why not politely request to the author of the offending post (in private) that they edit the post to insert some wrapping ?

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  • SexieWASDSexieWASD Posts: 41
    edited 2010-01-13 02:53
    link to the post. I bet one line of CSS can fix it, maybe two at most.
  • SamMishalSamMishal Posts: 468
    edited 2010-01-13 03:37
    SexieWASD said...
    link to the post. I bet one line of CSS can fix it, maybe two at most.
    What is CSS??? What Post???


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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-01-13 03:41
    Forget it. There's nothing that will, or should, be done on the server side to fix this problem, other than transitioning to new forum software. And that's in the works. So, patience: the fix is in. Wait for it ...

    -Phil
  • heaterheater Posts: 3,370
    edited 2010-01-13 07:52
    Yes it's annoying.

    Also SAM you should avoid SHOUTING so much[noparse]:)[/noparse]

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-01-13 08:23
    I haven't seen a case yet where the forced scrolling is intentional. Someone may have a 10 megapixel camera and not know how to resample their photos, or their programs may have too many trailing spaces at the end. There are versions of the MIT license boilerplate that suffer the trailing space "feature", which I've seen posted more than once. They're obviously all cut and pasted from the same source and just keep propagating. But from what I've seen of the upcoming forum software, these issues will be history. So that's why I counsel patience. It's simply not worth getting upset about when the solution is just over the horizon.

    -Phil
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