Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Recently more and more forum pages become almost unreadable (~20,000! pixels wide) for me (WinNT/XP, Opera) without any noticable reason. Example: http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=473201 Anybody else noticed this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 It doesn't happen on my W2K box with IE6. The example you listed didn't even have any large pictures or anything that might throw off the margins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Recently more and more forum pages become almost unreadable (~20,000! pixels wide) for me (WinNT/XP, Opera) without any noticable reason. Example: http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=473201 Anybody else noticed this problem? I just opened up that page in the Mac version of Opera and it looks fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 11, 2003 Author Share Posted December 11, 2003 The problem is, that I can't reproduce it too. Sometimes a thread is that extremely wide and the next time I load it, it looks ok. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Even if clearing the cache before reloading the page? Perhaps something is just taking too long to resize or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Sounds like the problem may be on your end. I haven't had that ever. So it might be a software problem with opera. I never did like the mozilla type engine that runs netscape and opera. I have always been a fan of IE and haven't had any problems yet. I know some people say it is unsecure, but it seems like millions of people use it, so it can't be that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Sounds like the problem may be on your end. I haven't had that ever. So it might be a software problem with opera. I never did like the mozilla type engine that runs netscape and opera. I have always been a fan of IE and haven't had any problems yet. I know some people say it is unsecure, but it seems like millions of people use it, so it can't be that bad. Millions of people use it because it comes pre-installed with Windows (it's actually tightly integrated with the OS), not because it's the best web browser by any stretch. Microsoft has not updated IE in some time now, and Mozilla follows web standards much more rigorously than IE and contains many useful features over IE. To say nothing of security, which seems to be an afterthought in most Microsoft products. Yet another IE problem surfaced today, one that allows links to override the URL in the address bar. So you could be at some scam site, but you'll see "http://www.paypal.com" instead of the real address in your browser window. Mozilla and Opera do not share the same rendering engine, they are two completely different (and superior to IE) web browsers. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I don't worry too much about security w/IE. (Of course, that's because it's not integrated into my OS.) I choose not to use it because the Mac OS X version is TERRIBLE! Safari all the way! But when I am unfortunate enough to be using a Windows PC, I do use IE. I do think the latest versions of Netscape (6 and 7) are vastly superior to anything they produced in the last 5+ years though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Recently more and more forum pages become almost unreadable (~20,000! pixels wide) for me (WinNT/XP, Opera) without any noticable reason. I have never seen this problem, and as you can imagine I hit the forums pretty frequently. I use both Mozilla and Safari during the course of my day. Sounds like a weird rendering bug on Opera. How often do you see this? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artlover Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I have seen this oddity ONCE on another web bbs last year. It seemed like the page didn't completely load for some reason, and as a result never "resized to fit" because it was still waiting for data. So I saw several posts all one line high, scrolling off the right side of the screen seemingly forever. Hit reload, and and it was fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 im using opera 7 and i dont have a problem.. blame your old windows 95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 The only thing that I noticed out of the ordinary in that thread is the ☆彡 characters in Raijin Z's signature...which is not part of the Arial font. Perhaps that had something to do with the page not finishing and resizing? Maybe it's not a browser issue, but a font issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 11, 2003 Author Share Posted December 11, 2003 im using opera 7 and i dont have a problem.. blame your old windows 95 That has changed into XP now. or I just noticed the problem on DP too, so it might be a problem with loading the pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I would guess it is, as others have said, a matter of the page not loading completely. It may be an issue that Opera's rendering engine has in those specific circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 It is just happening again (even with different browsers). Reloading doesn't help too. Any ideas how to solve the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hey! I got it to appear using IE6 on a reply screen... Definately not a browser issue What's with the wide spacing on the emote list? I dunno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Hey! I got it to appear using IE6 on a reply screen...Definately not a browser issue What's with the wide spacing on the emote list? I dunno I don't think what Thomas is experiencing and what you saw are the same problem. I have seen the emoticon problem you pictured when the page hasn't finished loading, especially on poor, dial-up connections to the net. Of course, I guess that could be Thomas' problem also. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 18, 2003 Author Share Posted December 18, 2003 I have seen the emoticon problem you pictured when the page hasn't finished loading, especially on poor, dial-up connections to the net. But I am only experiencing that problem at my office, which has a very fast internet connection. BTW: Right now again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I have seen the emoticon problem you pictured when the page hasn't finished loading, especially on poor, dial-up connections to the net. But I am only experiencing that problem at my office, which has a very fast internet connection. BTW: Right now again. I'm not really sure what to say about it. It's definitely not a widespread problem, or I'm sure tons of people would complain about it (given that it would be quite annoying). I have _never_ seen it, in either Internet Explorer, Mozilla, or Safari, and I view thousands of forum pages a week. Given you have also seen it on DP, sounds like it is somehow related to PHPBB. After the holidays I hope to put some effort into completing the forum migration, after which hopefully this problem will no longer afflict you. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I'm getting the problem on this thread now. Thanks a lot Thomas. I'm using Mozilla at the moment. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I'm getting the problem on this thread now. Thanks a lot Thomas. I'm using Mozilla at the moment. Mitch I presume you are talking about the fact that there is a pretty wide image in this thread, causing the window to be wider than normal? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 18, 2003 Author Share Posted December 18, 2003 "Real" ultra-wide pages are more than 10 times wider than any screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I'm getting the problem on this thread now. Thanks a lot Thomas. I'm using Mozilla at the moment. Mitch I presume you are talking about the fact that there is a pretty wide image in this thread, causing the window to be wider than normal? ..Al Yes. Though I have had the real "wide page" problem occasionally in the past. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 18, 2003 Author Share Posted December 18, 2003 Yes. Though I have had the real "wide page" problem occasionally in the past. So I am not the only one. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clock Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 I have seen some weird pages when people insert their own HTML and just don't close all the tags. All posts that follow on the same page are effected. So maybe this is some of the problem, but it is rather a rare to see. I have never seen any other wide screens (except large images of course) when browsing AA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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