Why are the dimensions all uneven?

[Namelessknight]

This isn't so much a bug as something I can't figure out how to change. Anyway, I am running winXP, with IE on dialup. I have a 768x1024 display. I have come across several posts that are alot longer than 1024 and it forces me to scroll across to read. It is extremely irritating since it seems that there should be something that would configure it for my settings. I've looked around, but can't find anything that forces screen configuration. So, if you have any ideas or know what I can do, that would be great. Thanks for your time,
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[Mithrandir]

Please post an example thread so that we can help you debug this issue.

Also, if you can provide a screen capture, that would be helpful as well.

[Namelessknight]

[Namelessknight]

Here's a thread:

http://www.christiananime.com/showthread.php?t=12443


And even this thread is an example. The page goes way over to the right and even tho there is nothing there to see, all that extra space is there.
And I just realized, it is only when I log in. When i view things unlogged in, it is fine, but as soon as I log in, bam, i get all this extra space I have to deal with.

And how do I do a screen capture to here? Not a clue how to do it...

[shooraijin]

You can do a screen-capture in Windows by pressing Alt-PrtSc to capture the active window, and then paste it into a MSPaint document, save that as .jpg or some other format, and post it as an attachment.

[Namelessknight]

here's a screen shot:

errrr, an attachment anyway of it...

ok, i've uploaded the attachment, but it isn't showing when i've posted. what am i doing wrong?

[Mithrandir]

I've never seen anything like that. It looks to me like you have some weird version of IE that's not able to render correctly. I'd see about using Firefox (a good idea anyway) and see if you have the same issues. I've never heard of this issue with IE, but yeah... Odd...

[shooraijin]

The top user's sig on screen is showing the URLs making up the images, not the images themselves, and it glommed them into one big line. That's why it's breaking up (because it can't wrap the line, so therefore it gets too large). Does it do this on every thread? Is it doing it on this one (neither oldphil nor I have images in our sigs, so it shouldn't)?

If it's not doing it here, but only on some pages with certain signatures, perhaps there's a setting you need to fix in Juno (I wonder what version of IE is the rendering engine ... prolly 6, but not necessarily).

[Namelessknight]

That's what did it. I had turned off the "show pix in sig" option and once i turned it back on, everything went back to normal. That sucks. Cause with dialup it takes soooo much longer for everything to load with everyones' stupid pix hogging up bandwidth, oh well. it is worth it to read it correctly. Thanks for all your help guys. Really appreciate it and thanks for the tip about Firefox. I'll be getting it....

[Namelessknight]

Well, it wasn't an IE or Juno problem either. I am using firefox now and tested it. whenever i turn off the sigpix, it goes all "long" on me. So I will just keep them on. That seems like a problem tho. And is it a problem with the browsers[i mean, i just tried 3 different and it acted the same] or the programming here[not to slurr anyone's work of course]? It is just one of those little things that bug the bejabbers out of me. ..

[shooraijin]

Not with all browsers. Some browsers just put placeholders there.

[Fsiphskilm]

I think it might

[Kaligraphic]

In Opera, you can have a little button to toggle loading/display of images. I'd have to check regarding whether Firefox has a similar button, but it's worth looking into. Personally, I find the amount of graphics in sigs to be rather excessive here, so I disable the loading until after I read the thread. (browsers can't put appropriately-sized placeholders unless the image dimensions are specified in the HTML, so the screen kept scrolling for me as sig image after sig image loaded.)

[Mithrandir]

...and since it would be a LOT of overhead to determine the sizes on the fly, it's not likely the problem will go away... Hmm... I wonder if the sig display routine can be re-written to insert wrapable chars between graphic's urls...

[shooraijin]

No, no -- what I mean by placeholders is just a small icon indicating a graphic should be here. The placeholders I see in Camino are just icons, and have no relationship to the size of the image they represent (thus they may still distort layout, of course).

[Mithrandir]

Hmm... I guess I didn't state that clearly. I was actually meaning to create a wrapper that would load the whole thing into a string, and add a
after "n" characters. Not just in between the graphics. Bleah. I hate posting while sick...

[Namelessknight]

That would be a fabu idea Philo!!! But I'll check Firefox options. Still getting used to it tho.

[Mithrandir]

Now that I think about it, I can't really figure out how that would work. The BR in the middle of the string would cripple the image for normal users. >< Hey Namelessknight, have you tried the CAA lite skin?

I get so caught up in the code that I miss the obvious solution.

[Fsiphskilm]

tell me about it.

[Namelessknight]

Now that I think about it, I can't really figure out how that would work. The BR in the middle of the string would cripple the image for normal users. >< Hey Namelessknight, have you tried the CAA lite skin?

I get so caught up in the code that I miss the obvious solution.

I tried that. And Firefox too. So i've just turned the stupid sig pix back on.