Auto-carriage: a possibility for people who insist on making a thread 3 miles wide?

[CKent]

Know how every once in a while someone decides to be a jackass and make a thread extra-wide? Since we can't trust people to be mature, sensible and intelligent enough not to do it, is there any way an auto-HR feature could be implemented to stop this? Scrolling horizontally in order to read a thread is ridiculous and thoroughly negates the point of the thread's entire existence, as nobody will or can be bothered reading it.

Here's an example

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

great idea!

 

[KeithTalent]

I do not see the issue. I was able to read that entire thread without scrolling horizontally; am I missing something?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I do not see the issue. I was able to read that entire thread without scrolling horizontally; am I missing something?

Same here

1280x1024 screen using IE6 with no issues

 

[BlueWeasel]

Must be a Firefox thing....with IE6 @ 1280x1024, the lines wrap with no scrolling, but with FF on the same system, I have to scroll over about 3 screens.

 

[xtknight]

No problem with Opera 9.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I do not see the issue. I was able to read that entire thread without scrolling horizontally; am I missing something?

Same here

1280x1024 screen using IE6 with no issues

Whos not using at least this resolution? I didnt pay $300+ for a video card for 800x600! Although I do use 1024x768 at work because they are stingy.

That being said, the only time Ive seen horizontal threads is when someone either has a very big screenname like "twentyfourcharacteresmax" or when something like "..............................................................................
...............................................................................
...............................................................................
................." is typed.


edit: The above line was typed unbroken and the forum inserted breaks to keep it from messing up the formatting. So I guess its already in place, but for larger resolutions like 1280x1024.

 

[cubby1223]

IE treats a dash as a character it can wrap a line with. Mozilla doesn't and displays it all on one line.

 

[KeithTalent]

Just got home and tried it on Firefox at 1680x1050; I see the issue now, very annoying.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I do not see the issue. I was able to read that entire thread without scrolling horizontally; am I missing something?

Same here

1280x1024 screen using IE6 with no issues

Whos not using at least this resolution? I didnt pay $300+ for a video card for 800x600! Although I do use 1024x768 at work because they are stingy.

That being said, the only time Ive seen horizontal threads is when someone either has a very big screenname like "twentyfourcharacteresmax" or when something like "..............................................................................
...............................................................................
...............................................................................
................." is typed.


edit: The above line was typed unbroken and the forum inserted breaks to keep it from messing up the formatting. So I guess its already in place, but for larger resolutions like 1280x1024.

IE7-B2 at 1024 on my laptop has no problem.
Mozilla has the issue though.

 

[CKent]

Well I guess it's a browser issue then, not a forum one. That sucks... I'll have to give Opera a try now that it's free.

 

[JDrake]

Aye! Very annoying!
I definitely think there should be something against this

 

[altonb1]

Everything fine on IE6 at 1024x768 and 1280x1024.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: RBachman
Well I guess it's a browser issue then, not a forum one. That sucks... I'll have to give Opera a try now that it's free.

Wouldn't you complain about the same thing if there wasn't a dash to break up the line?

I made a post about this (I think) but the admin didn't do jack.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: RBachman
Well I guess it's a browser issue then, not a forum one. That sucks... I'll have to give Opera a try now that it's free.

Or a Fusetalk issue. The Tidy extension, which checks for non-compliant HTML coding reports 38 errors and 472 warnings on this page. It checks for things like missing or expected tags, or tags that aren't in the proper sequence.
Too much stuff is checked for compliance with IE and that's about it. IE allows for sloppy programming, which I don't especially like. It just encourages programmers to ignore set rules.