Author Topic: Why Are Some Postings "Wider" Than Others?  (Read 1818 times)

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tooseevee

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on: November 17, 2018, 01:55:42 pm
       ??? ??? ???

       And it seems random; no rhyme or reason.

       Is it each person's individual settings?
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Reply #1 on: November 18, 2018, 12:39:30 pm
Good question.
When I post it's a 50/50 chance the message box will be either full-sized or half-sized on the right side of the window.
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Reply #2 on: November 18, 2018, 01:36:53 pm
Good question.
When I post it's a 50/50 chance the message box will be either full-sized or half-sized on the right side of the window.

Same here.  Like right now I am typing in the small box.  The other irritation is that I get the error screen if I try to make a post that is too wordy.   :(
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Reply #3 on: November 18, 2018, 02:42:08 pm
      ??? ??? ???

       And it seems random; no rhyme or reason.

       Is it each person's individual settings?


If I understand your question correctly, and you're talking about the width of the margins of an actual forum posting and not the editing window, then it most likely has to do with a large wide inline image in a posting knocking out those margin walls.

However, it appears the forum system admins may have very recently implemented an automatic image resizer function to keep this margin drift from occurring. The following originally 1200 x 1800 image has been automatically and proportionally "system resized" upon posting to "width=512 height=768". So, that whole margins to the horizon  thing may well be a thing of the past.  But if you click the image, and you know you want to, you can see it uncorrected and watch those margins blast outwards. Click it again, and both she and the margins will spring back to "manageable"...


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Reply #4 on: November 18, 2018, 03:54:34 pm
If I understand your question correctly, and you're talking about the width of the margins of an actual forum posting and not the editing window, then it most likely has to do with a large wide inline image in a posting knocking out those margin walls.

However, it appears the forum system admins may have very recently implemented an automatic image resizer function to keep this margin drift from occurring. The following originally 1200 x 1800 image has been automatically and proportionally "system resized" upon posting to "width=512 height=768". So, that whole margins to the horizon  thing may well be a thing of the past.  But if you click the image, and you know you want to, you can see it uncorrected and watch those margins blast outwards. Click it again, and both she and the margins will spring back to "manageable"...

 

       She could sit on my, uuhhh, seat any time.

        Oh and thanks for the explanation also :) :) :)
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Reply #5 on: November 18, 2018, 05:26:43 pm
I've had trouble posting full stop.

Always a database error.

*edit*

bloody hell! It worked for once.


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Reply #6 on: November 18, 2018, 10:09:15 pm
I've had trouble posting full stop.

Always a database error.

*edit*

bloody hell! It worked for once.


"full stop"..."bloody hell!"...Ahhh! British keyboard detected. That may be your problem right there.

If you look at even this very webpage's HTML source code (right-click anywhere on page, View Page Source) you'll see near the top that for some reason, instead of some nice versatile flavor of Unicode like "UTF-8" the admins have the default supported character set set to "charset=ISO-8859-1", which is the motive typographical equivalent of Good Olde Fashioned Yankee Buggy Whip Oil. Your keyboard's Imperial pretensions may be giving the Forum database's ultra-primitivo text handling mapping a blighty case of the vapours, even through some otherwise unexotic character.


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Reply #7 on: November 24, 2018, 08:53:54 pm
Ah. Thanks for the explanation Bilgemaster.

I had to do a bit of a Google on it after though :)