A little detail, thank Brad...

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ghost_user_nameghost_user_name
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in Feedback edited January 2014
Switched the text entry boxes and other CSS elements to use OS defaults.



A nice touch for Safari users (I personally hated the Verdana text entry boxes) and Windows Users, as it would fix a lot of odd color and font stuff in text entry boxes and pull-down menus.
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  • Reply 1 of 29
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    it took me a minute or two to figure out why the text box looked different



    sweet.



    Thanks Brad
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  • Reply 2 of 29
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I'm also working on adding height and width elements to a number of the templates and as I go, I am updating the code to better fit the XHTML 1.0 standard (it was originally written by vB as HTML 4.01 plus some other munged sugments of code).
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  • Reply 3 of 29
    audiopollutionaudiopollution Posts: 3,226member
    Gotta say that the forums now look like utter crap on IE6 (Win XP). Everything is centered, and the font is some horrible tiny serif disaster.
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  • Reply 4 of 29
    /mandolux//mandolux/ Posts: 648member
    Under Mac OS 9.2.2 using Netscape 7+, the text looks way too small (and bold text is unreadable).



    When I run text zoom in netscape, at 120% the text made me sick (since I wear glasses) -- it looked very blurry for me. At 150%, the text looks a little less blurry (but it still bothers my sigh).
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  • Reply 5 of 29
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Well, I'm afraid I don't have a Mac OS 9 machine anywhere nearby any longer. Care to post a screenshot, mando? Everything looks as it should in Netscape 7 on Mac OS X.



    I have no idea what's going on with your Windows box either, audiopollution. Beisdes, I haven't changed any formatting that should have this kind of result.
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  • Reply 6 of 29
    digitaldavedigitaldave Posts: 445member
    Brad,



    All the text is centred on my WinXP box too . No settings changed here.



    Dave.
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  • Reply 7 of 29
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    i was on a win98 box last night, same centering issue. IE5.
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  • Reply 8 of 29
    jesperasjesperas Posts: 524member
    Also centered here. Win2KPro.
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  • Reply 9 of 29
    not unlike myselfnot unlike myself Posts: 2,037member
    WEEEE Centered! I love it!



    XP Prof Ed.
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  • Reply 10 of 29
    macroninmacronin Posts: 1,174member
    Annoyingly centered here on the work machine...



    WinBloz 2000 SP3 on a crappy Dell desktop...



    I keep asking for a Mac, and the IT guy keeps laughing at me!



    Gotta say, the (roughly) 5" high black Apple logo (w/red Kanji characters offset to the left side of the apple, reads Mackido, aka 'The Power Of The Mac Way'...) on the back of my right calf doesn't help me out in this WinBloz-centric company...



    Cheers!



    ;^p
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  • Reply 11 of 29
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Screenshot you asked for, Brad. This is IE6 on Win XP. It's fine in Mozilla.



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  • Reply 12 of 29
    audiopollutionaudiopollution Posts: 3,226member
    At least he fixed the font issue. \
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  • Reply 13 of 29
    /mandolux//mandolux/ Posts: 648member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Well, I'm afraid I don't have a Mac OS 9 machine anywhere nearby any longer. Care to post a screenshot, mando? Everything looks as it should in Netscape 7 on Mac OS X.



    I was going to but I had some much other stuff to do at the same time - sorry. I guess I'm also late since the text now looks 'normal' like it used to be.
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  • Reply 14 of 29
    _ alliance __ alliance _ Posts: 2,070member
    scrolling side to side gets tedious and beyond annoying. fix this damn centering issue now!
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  • Reply 15 of 29
    dfilerdfiler Posts: 3,420member
    I'm like a junkie suddenly denied their left-justifaction!



    Things are about to get ugly(er).
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  • Reply 16 of 29
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Well, guys, I'm baffled here. Seriously, I changed *nothing* that should cause the alignment to switch to centered like this.



    The code is correct as far as I can tell. It renders exactly as it should in every engine I've tried: Netscape 7 (from Mozilla 1.0.1), Mozilla 1.2.1, Safari b2, OmniWeb 4.2, OmniWeb 4.5 sp 26 (using a tweaked Apple WebCore), Internet Explorer for Mac, and iCab.



    This must be a Windows IE formatting bug. The code is correct, as far as I can tell. Oh how I hate you, Windows IE. I personally like murbot's take on this:







    If anyone here has some HTML and CSS experience, feel free to take a look at the source code of an affected page and point me towards the error. I'll keep looking, but I doubt I'll find anything and even if I do I won't know to fix it since everything all renders fine in all the browsers I have here.




    image
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  • Reply 17 of 29
    audiopollutionaudiopollution Posts: 3,226member
    Well, it worked fine before you starting messin' last night.



    Break out the backups.
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  • Reply 18 of 29
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Speaking of having to scroll side-to-side...



    Is there any way to restrict the maximum length of a single line of text? Say someone pastes in a huge long URL instead of using the [ url ] tag... on my 12" iBook, it becomes really annoying because I have only 1024 horizontal pixels (unlike all you TiBook and 17" studio display owners with 1280!). Could it be made to, say, wrap around?
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  • Reply 19 of 29
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by audiopollution

    Gotta say that the forums now look like utter crap on IE6 (Win XP). Everything is centered, and the font is some horrible tiny serif disaster.



    XP? geddahellouddahier..



    Brad, I like the fact it looks (looked?) crappy on IE + Win ...
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  • Reply 20 of 29
    audiopollutionaudiopollution Posts: 3,226member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Giaguara

    XP? geddahellouddahier..



    Brad, I like the fact it looks (looked?) crappy on IE + Win ...



    Well, it does exactly the same thing on Opera 7 running on Windows.



    We can't all dictate what computers are sitting on our desks at work, and I'm not about to fire up my powerbook just to read AppleInsider with proper formatting.
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