Arduous Continuous Left-Right Scrolling

[CompuTutor]

I have been hacking away at this page's
source code for a few hours for fun.

Removing the entire head section,
various advertiser scripts,
the entire left and bottom frames,
and many other needless scripts.

Sure loads fast now ...

So far it looks like it is just the underline call.

the problem goes away when I remove that tag.

I mean it stops the error in FireFox, Opera, and IE.

Please note,
it is a SECOND line,
the first is just fine.

Eliminating the underline call
kills BOTH lines though ... lol.



I agree (Mark) that the range of viewer equipment we all use
in this day and age calls for BB code that has cosiderably more
compatibility issues than yest'r-year.

But that this forums SMF and plugins and PortaMx allows pics that big
is most likely a controlable/limitable variable by the X/Y pixal count.

I know the attachment size is controlable as example,
there is a thread here about it, and It's size's evolution.

But I'd rather see the pics inset into their own insert,
with scrollable bars for JUST those oversized pics.

As opposed to having to arduously scroll
miles of text line by line on each page instead.

That way schematics and so forth
would fully retain readablility. 

Resize plugins usually bastardize them.

[Pirate88179]

In the areas that I am a moderator, I have found that when this happens I simply download my own copy of the oversized photo, delete the photo as posted by the poster, and then re-size the photo to correct proportions and then upload it back to the poster's post.

This seems to correct the wide screen that happens after a large photo.  It is a little time consuming and I don't always have time to catch the problem and fix it, but I try to do it when I can.  I only have moderator powers on a few topics that allows me to do this.

The cool thing is, once I have done this, no one can tell anything has changed except for the wide page is gone.

Bill

[mscoffman]

@pirate88179;

Thanks then...For all you effort. 
I like this idea. "Is it automatable?"


@All

I did some more research and found that the widest image on the
downloaded .html page sets the width for the entire page. Not from
the beginning of the thread. The browser scrolls through that page
image on the local machine. But there are sure is a range of primary
scroll bar sizes. From just losing the ads on the left, which act as a
buffer, to fully displaying only 1/2 the actual page. I think you may
have it Compu-Tutor, in the precalcs don't let the image change the page
width too much...But scroll through whole image on the subframe scroll
bars. I my belief though I haven't looked at this at all from the standpoint
of a coder, is that all run-on text is just text...I doubt that text itself
can set page width...though I did see a run-on url link that might have.

:S:MarkCoffman

[CompuTutor]

Yes, TY from all of us Bill for the effort.

I did some more research and found that the widest image on the
downloaded .html page sets the width for the entire page. Not from
the beginning of the thread.

That is what I noticed too.

but lately pages without pics
are starting this stuff too.

Although standard text will wrap normally.

if the sentence has certain characters in it,
like common URL operators it won't it seems.

If anyone reading this doesn't see a second line
under the main one in my first post at the top
below the date "May 07, 2010, 08:08:36 AM",
please tell me "what version of what" your using.

It will look like my second picture
when you scroll to the right and look.

I wonder if Micro$hafts "Updates" hosed me...

[Pirate88179]

Thanks guys, I appreciate that.

I am no programmer by any means but it seems to me to be an easy thing to have a block on photos that do not meet the correct format when someone is attempting to upload them.  Would this not be easy?  Or, is it not available in this forum software?

I have been on other sites where you get an error message when trying to upload a non-conforming photo like "please re-size your picture to the proper format" or words to that effect.

Now, as far as it doing the same thing with just words, I have not seen that yet but I will take your word for it.

I am using the latest version of Firefox over here.

Bill