Problems When Viewing Long Signatures

TheFlyingSquirrel · 01-04-2007, 11:04 AM

Recently, I have noticed problems with viewing people's signatures in Firefox.

In the version of Firefox my school has installed (I think it's 1.5), a long signature extends into the next post. It's quite ugly, and I don't know what's causing it, as it was fine a few weeks ago.

In the version of Firefox I use at home (2.0), there's a box where you must scroll down or up if you want to see the whole signature. It's also ugly.

In Safari, I can show all the spoilers in k//eternal's signature, and it merely stretches the page. There is no text extending into the next post.

Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone know what's causing it?

SulferDragon · 01-04-2007, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by TheFlyingSquirrel

In the version of Firefox I use at home (2.0), there's a box where you must scroll down or up if you want to see the whole signature. It's also ugly.

I don't know what version of Firefox I have, but I have two computers, and each computer has a different version, and in both of them there's that scroll wheel for larger sigs.

I was actually going to ask about why this was happening. I actually don't mind the scroll wheel that is if we may have as big of sigs as we like.

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In the version of Firefox my school has installed (I think it's 1.5), a long signature extends into the next post. It's quite ugly, and I don't know what's causing it, as it was fine a few weeks ago.

I haven't encountered this. Instead I've encountered people's user info to the left of post having this same effect. I was thinking wtf to it because it just started happening at random points on random users. Fletcher, that was one of the users it happened to.

As for Safari, or any other browser I don't know because I don't have them.

UnrealArcher · 01-04-2007, 02:44 PM

I just checked using Firefox 1.5 (I use 2.0.0.1 by default, but I have the 1.5 installer kicking around), and wasn't able to reproduce the problem on my machine.

I had something similar occur earlier, exceot it was a different column that overflowed, but once I refreshed it went away. You sure it's not just a bad render that can be fixed with a simple refresh?

*phuzion* · 01-05-2007, 06:11 PM

The scrollbar on signatures is intentional. We did this beacuse some people were getting out of hand with their signatures, making them a few hundred pixels too tall, when around 100 is really the acceptable limit for most sites.

I'm not sure about the signatures extending into the next post though, that might have to do with some malformed HTML that the server is putting out, or possibly just a browser error on your end. Either way, I haven't noticed it, which leads me to believe that its most likely a browser problem. When you see it again, make a note of the URL, and post it in here, and maybe even upload a screenshot so we can diagnose what's going on by possibly figuring out where the error is in the code.

TheFlyingSquirrel: What, your school has Firefox installed?

TheFlyingSquirrel · 01-05-2007, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Phuzion

The scrollbar on signatures is intentional. We did this beacuse some people were getting out of hand with their signatures, making them a few hundred pixels too tall, when around 100 is really the acceptable limit for most sites.

I'm not sure about the signatures extending into the next post though; that might have to do with some malformed HTML that the server is putting out, or possibly just a browser error on your end. Either way, I haven't noticed it, which leads me to believe that it’s most likely a browser problem. When you see it again, make a note of the URL, and post it in here, and maybe even upload a screenshot so we can diagnose what's going on by possibly figuring out where the error is in the code.

I can't take screenshots on the eMacs at school. Also, wouldn't it look a little funny if I pulled out a camera and took pictures of the screen?

At least one older version of Firefox (pre-2.0 for sure, but I don't know which version exactly, just that it's for Mac computers) doesn't support this scrollbar, and the sig extends into the next post.

Safari seems to ignore the scrollbar altogether, but it stretched the page instead of having the sig extend into the next post. I unspoilered EVERYTHING in k//eternal’s sig, and no scrollbar appeared. I have yet to see what long signatures without spoilers look like in Safari.

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TheFlyingSquirrel: What, your school has Firefox installed?

Yes. However, the media center “specialists” don’t allow students to edit their preferences (e.g. desktop background) or install programs or updates (like updates to Firefox). The version of Firefox I must use at school is outdated. It sucks.

SulferDragon · 01-05-2007, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by SulferDragon

Instead I've encountered people's user info to the left of post having this same effect.

I encounted this problem again. It was with Reenee this time.

I would take a pic, but I don't have a digital camera. So I went to print, but when it printed everything looked fine. Then I tried refreshing the page, and everything was A o-k.

*phuzion* · 01-06-2007, 01:37 AM

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I encounted this problem again. It was with Reenee this time.

I would take a pic, but I don't have a digital camera. So I went to print, but when it printed everything looked fine. Then I tried refreshing the page, and everything was A o-k.

Sounds like it was probably a one-time page-rendering glitch in your browser then.

TheFlyingSquirrel: If you can find a page that consistently reproduces the error, maybe I can show the source code from it to a more technically inclined mac user with the same version of your browser, and we can figure out what is causing this problem.

***Keith*** · 01-06-2007, 01:13 PM

Can you take a screenshot?

TheFlyingSquirrel · 01-06-2007, 01:41 PM

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Can you take a screenshot?

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Originally Posted by TheFlyingSquirrel

I can't take screenshots on the eMacs at school. Also, wouldn't it look a little funny if I pulled out a camera and took pictures of the screen?

And

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page that consistently reproduces the error

Uh, any page where a user with multiple spoiler tags in his/her sig posted.

Since I won't have access to school computers until Monday, that's all I can really say for now.

***Keith*** · 01-09-2007, 04:31 PM

You can take a screenshot by holding apple+shift+3 on a macintosh. It will save the image to your desktop.

In safari it completely ignores the frame which is fine.

SulferDragon · 01-09-2007, 04:51 PM

How do you take a screenshot on Firefox?

[edit]Whoops, sorry... I ment on a pc[edit]

***Keith*** · 01-09-2007, 05:02 PM

The web browser can't take a screen shot, you're operating system does.

On a mac, you use apple+shift+3.
On pc it's a little more complicated.

The "print screen" key will take a screenshot. Press that and then go into paint. Once you're in paint, go Edit and press paste. It should paste the screenshot. Then save it.

TheFlyingSquirrel · 01-09-2007, 07:34 PM

OK Keith, I'll try taking a screenshot then.

SulferDragon · 01-09-2007, 09:35 PM

Here's a pic. Finally~

***Keith*** · 01-10-2007, 10:12 AM

Flyingsquirrel sent me an email with the screenshot and he said it is Firefox 1.0.7. Are you using something before Firefox 1.5 also? I would definitely update Firefox if you can.