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 Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: What makes some of the pages so wide? |
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Sometimes there is a post with extremely wide pages, so that I have to scroll left and right to read the posts. Very irritating. See, for example:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-415756.html
What causes this? Is it an IE-only thing (when at work I use IE)? Any way to keep it from happening? It makes reading posts next to impossible.
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polle
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I don't know what is causing this, but it is surely not IE.
I have the same sometimes with Opera (linux version running on gentoo) |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: What makes some of the pages so wide? |
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| massysett wrote: | Sometimes there is a post with extremely wide pages, so that I have to scroll left and right to read the posts. Very irritating. See, for example:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-415756.html
What causes this? Is it an IE-only thing (when at work I use IE)? Any way to keep it from happening? It makes reading posts next to impossible. |
Long url's that are not wrapped in tags will do that, just as code blocks with long strings of text.
To fix it you report it in the reporting thread in this forum and a moderator will edit the offending post 
btw the thread you point to looks fine to me. I don't see a mile wide page appearing.
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massysett
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: What makes some of the pages so wide? |
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| nixnut wrote: |
Long url's that are not wrapped in tags will do that, just as code blocks with long strings of text.
To fix it you report it in the reporting thread in this forum and a moderator will edit the offending post
btw the thread you point to looks fine to me. I don't see a mile wide page appearing. |
Yep, just clicked on it, and the page is massively wide. What's your screen resolution? I'm on 1024x768, and the thing is about two and a half screens wide.
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looks bad on windows with IE for me, and good here on gentoo/firefox, don't know why:?:
EDIT: may be smaller then 1024x768 with IE, and 1280x1024 here |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: What makes some of the pages so wide? |
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| massysett wrote: | | nixnut wrote: |
Long url's that are not wrapped in tags will do that, just as code blocks with long strings of text.
To fix it you report it in the reporting thread in this forum and a moderator will edit the offending post
btw the thread you point to looks fine to me. I don't see a mile wide page appearing. |
Yep, just clicked on it, and the page is massively wide. What's your screen resolution? I'm on 1024x768, and the thing is about two and a half screens wide. |
I use firefox at about 1024x768 and it looks fine. Seems to be a problem specific to IE in this case.
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