There is a lot of great technical information in this forum--I refer to it frequently. Only migrating one year of it is not enough, I think. Why can't all of it be migrated?
John, can you please find and fix whatever is making this topic wider then my 17" monitor. Thanks! I'll come back and read it when I don't have to scroll back and forth for every line.
No width problems here, either. I'm viewing all 55 replies on one screen as I type this.
Dorothy...What browser are you using which displays the stretched table(s)? I'll bet it's those recent posts with the long Pixentral URL's that are mucking it up for you.
JFYI, Firefox 3.x now wraps lines on overly long URLs so that they don't break the forum tables. Sooo, maybe that's something that'll help.
> i think it has something to do with validating the page as xhtml 1.0
I added a space before the br in the tags below so they won't add a line space!
I think what you are referring to is that in XHTML, a tag that does not require a closing tag (e.g. < br >) must be self-closing (< br />).
The a tag has a closing tag, so would not need (and should not have) an extra forward slash at the end.
Also, when used, the trailing slash is separated by a space from the text before.
The looks more like a slash to escape the closing >. But why? Nothing else is being escaped. I wonder if they are doing some server side processing of the code and this is a hack/fix?
The upgrade to Firefox 3.x (I think it's at 3.0.4 right now) is strongly recommended, for security reasons and because it's generally faster and more accurate at rendering pages as the W3C recommends.
Plus, those long URLs won't stretch the forums like Marlon Brando in a unitard!
DorothyK, you may have to change the screen resolution. On the LCD display I am running here at 1280 X 1040, the view only takes about 5/8ths of the screen width. It just about fills my notebook at 1040 X 768. On my 24" desktop monitor at work, the forum only takes about 1/2 the screen. Thus it appears to be a fixed width display. For a fixed with, changing the resolution will do the job. In fact, looking at the source the width seems to be that of a table at "width=680". That is consistent with the screen resolution I have on this system.
It may be that making the width floating may not be that easy (depends on the software that generates the forum - one of the issues of changing!).
I've got older versions of a lot of things, I've also got newer versions. Part of the reason is that I want to see things as an average user might, but in this case, and in that browser, I use a plug-in to Firefox for some of my other volunteer work, and that plug in hasn't been stabilized to work in ver 3. So I've avoided upgrading on that computer, and probably will until they tell us the plug-in is ready.
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