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June 17, 2007
Formatting Trouble
I've heard from several people who say this site's formatting is screwed up. If you're having the same trouble, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know, along with the kind of browser and computer you're using. It looks fine to me in many different macintosh browers.
UPDATE: I've fiddled with it. If it looked weird previously, how's the front page now? It should have George Washington rather than Gandhi in the ad.
HELP: The things I've tried to do haven't worked, and it's still messed up for people using Explorer or Netscape on a PC. Any advice would be appreciated.
FIXED?: I believe it's fixed now, though please let me know if that's not the case for you. Many thanks to the internet overbrain, in particular Jay of The Hindsight Factor and Jeremy.
Posted at June 17, 2007 03:39 PM | TrackBackOn the (Gateway) PC I'm using (Windows XP,IE 6.0), I'm seeing a large (empty) left magin (I guess you'd call it) on your 'main' page.
Posted by: Mike at June 17, 2007 04:36 PMGeneric AMD, WinXP -- extra blank column on the left, all content on the right. Must scroll right to read. front page only.
Posted by: at June 17, 2007 05:26 PMYurf. I've heard of problems with PCs using Netscape, too. If you have a second, could you email me a screen shot?
Posted by: Jonathan Schwarz at June 17, 2007 05:35 PMCorrect. I'm using a PC with IE 6.0.2xx, and the individual post-plus-comments pages work fine. The front page is where the big blank on the left is. Looks fine if you just scroll to the right.
Posted by: Nell at June 17, 2007 06:08 PMCorrect. I'm using a PC with IE 6.0.2xx, and the individual post-plus-comments pages work fine. The front page is where the big blank on the left is. Looks fine if you just scroll to the right.
Posted by: Nell at June 17, 2007 06:08 PMSorry, I shoulda been more clear.
Front page only refers to http://tinyrevolution.com/mt/
-- it's the one in my favorites. The link you have above looks fine.
--Generic AMD
Posted by: at June 17, 2007 06:53 PMSorry, I shoulda been more clear.
Front page only refers to http://tinyrevolution.com/mt/
-- it's the one in my favorites. The link you have above looks fine.
--Generic AMD
Posted by: at June 17, 2007 06:53 PMit looks ok in Mozilla 1.7(Firefox), but I get the same thing others have mentioned with MS IE 6. You have to scroll to the right w/ MS IE6, as if the width needs to be reset. I know nothing about moveable type, but I'm guessing they may have a bug with respect to the resolution settings, or maybe you've recently changed your resolution setting? (both my browsers were at 1024x768)
This has probably occurred to you, but just in case it hasn't-- is there any kind of bulletin board group type site where people discuss problems they've encountered with using MT?
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at June 17, 2007 07:32 PMI am using Internet Explorer on WindowsXP.
Posted by: CEMMCS at June 17, 2007 07:35 PMI'm using Firefox, and it looks fine to me.
Posted by: Kathy at June 17, 2007 09:40 PMLooks fine w/ Opera on a HP but I thought that was Bea Arthur, not G Washington.
Posted by: cavjam at June 17, 2007 09:48 PMIE 7.0, Vista Pro Business, Dell Precision 490 Quad Xeon
What I see:
Fat left margin.
IE 7.0, Vista Pro Business, Dell Precision 490 Quad Xeon
What I see:
Fat left margin.
Still about 2/5 of the left side blank.
--Generic AMD
Posted by: at June 17, 2007 10:59 PMYep. IE7 (on XP) has the Washington ad but a wide blank space (about twice the width of the ad) to the ad's left.
It's fine in Firefox.
Posted by: RobW at June 17, 2007 11:25 PMIE 6 - empty or very wide left margin on index page.
Posted by: Gary Denton at June 17, 2007 11:59 PMLooks fine through the Firefox 2.0 browser.
Posted by: James at June 18, 2007 01:58 AMI'm running Vista Ultimate. It looks fine with Firefox 2.0.0.4. It has a fat left margin with IE 7.0.6000.
Posted by: shargash at June 18, 2007 02:57 AMNot to add gratuitously to your woes, but the popup comment window is now unusable in Firefox for Windows. It comes up much narrower than the actual text width, it's unresizable, and the standard Windows "maximize" button has been disabled. This makes it literally impossible to either read the comments or post a new one.
The solution for Firefox users is to right-click on the "comments" link at the bottom of the post, and choose "Open in New Tab" from the context menu that results. However, this isn't obvious, and lots of less-Windows-sophisticated users will never figure it out.
The problem is generated somewhere in Movable Type's stupid javascript for the comment popup. It's fixable, but I forget how, and a cursory google hasn't discovered the answer. The best solution, in my opinion, is to bag popup windows altogether, and instead make your "comment" link simply jump to the individual archive page for the post in question, complete with posting form at the bottom of the page.
Posted by: Patrick Nielsen Hayden at June 18, 2007 07:41 AMpossible fix: add "position:absolute;" to the #links section of your css file.
adding that makes it work in IE6 and Firefox 2.0.0.4, have not tested with any other browsers. also not tested extensively on the rest of your site, ymmv, etc.
Posted by: jeremy at June 18, 2007 02:44 PMI was getting a heavily widened page on IE 6.0, but it's fine now -- whatever you did, worked for me.
Posted by: Anderson at June 18, 2007 03:24 PMlooks great again.
--Generic AMD
Posted by: at June 18, 2007 04:09 PMIt seems to be fine now on my Internet Explorer.
Posted by: cemmcs at June 18, 2007 05:15 PMcavjam,
I think Bea Arthur really liked Their Kampf, even if she doesn't leave comments when she visits ATR. I guess she's shy.
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at June 18, 2007 05:42 PMI use a mac and the formating looks fine.
Posted by: Dimitria at June 18, 2007 06:05 PMBeen okay on mine all along. I think your other readers were just drunk.
Posted by: Donald Johnson at June 18, 2007 11:13 PMFirefox with the No Squint extension.
Looks fine
Still pretty screwy -- a wiiiide left margin with nothing, then content pushed to the right.
IE6, PC. Sadly.
treb, is it still like that if you reload the page?
Posted by: Jonathan Schwarz at June 19, 2007 02:44 PMIt's good now.
Posted by: treb at June 20, 2007 04:30 PMSorry, I'm seeing Oda Nobunaga in the ad.
P.S. I'm working with Windows XP on a Toshiba.
Posted by: Twisted_Colour at June 23, 2007 08:36 AM
