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I'm not sure what you mean by not being able to see the entire post. I have looked at several threads and I can see everyone's posts in their entirety without having to scroll inside posts.Can you give me some examples, such as links to threads that you see this problem? How are you getting to these threads, do you use Active Topics?
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[quote="Darkraptor1"]Wow, this is an interesting change! I'm okay with the blue format, but if you want to change it, you might want to show what some of the possibilities are so we can all vote on what we want.[/quote]My original plan was to post some of the canned themes and have everyone vote on it, but then I found out most of the themes I liked didn't work with this version. I am going to stick with this theme for a while (the color scheme is similar to the old one, and the buttons are well done). The new theme will be done from scratch and I am thinking of using darker colors... light colors on white seem a little too 'fluffy'. Maybe burnt orange on black or something like that. I will post a link to the beta forum when I start working on it.
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I like the new format as it is easy on the eyes, quite easy to read as well
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[quote="GaggedUtopia"] I'm not sure what you mean by not being able to see the entire post. I have looked at several threads and I can see everyone's posts in their entirety without having to scroll inside posts.Can you give me some examples, such as links to threads that you see this problem? How are you getting to these threads, do you use Active Topics?
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It doesn't matter how I get to the post- still the same glitch on some- for example, on your post that I'm quoting I had to scroll to read entire post. I can understand scrolling if it's a very long post, but just for a few lines?
Franzia2006-04-23 16:19:10
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It doesn't matter how I get to the post- still the same glitch on some- for example, on your post that I'm quoting I had to scroll to read entire post. I can understand scrolling if it's a very long post, but just for a few lines?
Franzia2006-04-23 16:19:10
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Franzia, it does matter.Any information, no matter who trivial it may seem, can be helpful. I have visited this forum with Firefox and IE, logged in and logged out and cannot reproduce the issue on three separate computers. This new forum relies more on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which older browsers might have an issue with. I have not used AOL's browser in a while, but know it has had strange issues on other websites I manage.For anyone else is having this issue, can you please post the following information to help with the problem:What browser do you use?What OS do you use (WinXP, Max OSX, etc... )?Do you use AOL? Do you use the built-in browser?Have you tried clearing your history and internet cache?Thanks.
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GU, that might be it: Mac OSX and AOL browser here- not ancient but not the latest upgrades either, and clearing the history & cache doesn't help. Hope most members will not have to constantly upgrade to the latest versions of everything in order for the forum to work 100%.
Franzia2006-04-23 20:49:55
Franzia2006-04-23 20:49:55
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I run both Firefox and IE 6. The problem doesn't happen while using IE. It does happen using the latest version of Firefox when not logged in. However, when I log in, the scroll bars are gone.Hope that helps
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The problem doesn't appear with IE 5.1 either (on AOL), I've noticed.
Franzia2006-04-23 20:54:06
Franzia2006-04-23 20:54:06
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Well, I had a whole post done but to test something I logged out and when I clicked post it kicked it into bit space.[quote=LorCat]Hope that helps[/quote]Strange that I can't reproduce it with my Firefox. It almost sounds like there might be a preference setting that is causing the scrollbars. In any case, it is good feedback and should help.[quote=Franzia] The problem doesn't appear with IE 5.1 either (on AOL), I've noticed.[/quote]This may be a combination of issues, but I will say that AOL has one of the worst, non-compliant browsers out there. It almost doesn't surprise me that working with just IE it works ok. I suspect that if you tried Firefox it would work as well.Hopefully some more people will post giving some more clues. I plan on posting in the support forum for this software to see if anyone else has seen it.
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Some of the longer posts don't have scrollbars-- /forum_posts.asp?TID=612&PID=5799#5799
Now I'm not even sure if my links work...click the above and see if it goes to TID=612 or defaults back to TID=904
Franzia2006-04-24 18:47:51
Now I'm not even sure if my links work...click the above and see if it goes to TID=612 or defaults back to TID=904
Franzia2006-04-24 18:47:51
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I have Compuserve (which is in the AOL family and the forum says it's a Mozilla browser so I'll go with that) and Win XP.
It's kind of a pain when it's a 2 line post but it only shows 1 line and there's no scroll bar. Long posts like stories will show a large portion, but still have a scroll bar because it won't show the whole thing.
Isn't technology grand? he he
It's kind of a pain when it's a 2 line post but it only shows 1 line and there's no scroll bar. Long posts like stories will show a large portion, but still have a scroll bar because it won't show the whole thing.
Isn't technology grand? he he
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[quote="GaggedUtopia"] This may be a combination of issues, but I will say that AOL has one of the worst, non-compliant browsers out there. It almost doesn't surprise me that working with just IE it works ok. [/quote]
Is it all the fault of an AOL non-compliant browser or is it partly the fault of non-AOL-compliant programmers?
Is it all the fault of an AOL non-compliant browser or is it partly the fault of non-AOL-compliant programmers?
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Since AOL doesn't run the internet, and other browsers (Firefox, IE... for the most part)seem to have no trouble conforming to the statands of W3C and otherstandards orginizations, I would say the fault lies on AOL. If it often amazing the thousands of extra lines of code a website willuse just to 'trick' browsers like AOL and Netscape to workcorrectly. As for the issue at hand, I still have not heard back from the supportforum on a solution, but then again, nobody else has posted this issueeither (out of thousands of forums running this software), which is alittle strange too.GaggedUtopia2006-04-27 13:23:54