On 18-Oct-06 cl@isbd.net wrote:

I've been playing with this bug/infelicity for ages and I'm coming to the conclusion that it's maybe a Firefox bug in its handling of CSS.

Could any kind souls out there with nothing better to do take a look at:-

http://84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

and tell me if the Search box at the top right and the text underneath it is 'off window' to the right and makes a horizontal scroll bar appear?

I get similar -- cut off at "Login | Register | Pr.... -- but no horizontal scroll bar! Firefox 1.0.4.

In IE it's perfect, everything in the right place and no horizontal scroll bar. In Firefox I get the horizontal scroll bar, the degree of the error varies according to the font size (and minimum font size) you set in preferences. I've discussed it with the author of the Twiki skin but he hasn't really been able to resolve the problem.

If anyone can check it in browsers other than IE or Firefox that would be very useful but even other versions of Firefox would be interesting.

I've had similar problems with Firefox on other sites, which did seem to set in after I'd "messed with" the font sizes. However, I'm not sure about that, since I can get similar problems with and old Mozilla.

On quite a lot of sites I get parts of the window enlarged and overlaying other parts, as if Firefox is not calculating its layout according the the sizes of displayed objects.

One site which does irritate me is

http://www.royalmail.com

(e.g. if you want to do a postcode search, or a track&trace). Some of the links on that page do work, but others seem not to be active (you don't even get the mouse pointer changing to a "hand" pointer as you hover); and if you click on a text entry box to activate the text cursor, nothing happens. Yet this used to work not so long ago. But I bet it works on IE!!!!!!!

Hmmm. Ted.

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Checked it in Opera, IE6 and Firefox 1.5.0.7 (windows versions) and it appears fine in all of them.

Tony

----- Original Message ----- From: cl@isbd.net To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:33 PM Subject: [ALUG] Is this a FireFox bug or a Twiki template/skin problem?

I've been playing with this bug/infelicity for ages and I'm coming to the conclusion that it's maybe a Firefox bug in its handling of CSS.

Could any kind souls out there with nothing better to do take a look at:-

http://84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

and tell me if the Search box at the top right and the text underneath it is 'off window' to the right and makes a horizontal scroll bar appear?

In IE it's perfect, everything in the right place and no horizontal scroll bar. In Firefox I get the horizontal scroll bar, the degree of the error varies according to the font size (and minimum font size) you set in preferences. I've discussed it with the author of the Twiki skin but he hasn't really been able to resolve the problem.

If anyone can check it in browsers other than IE or Firefox that would be very useful but even other versions of Firefox would be interesting.

-- Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)

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