Text Running Off The Screen

[ViRGE]

This one is odd, so I don't quite know how to explain it, but in this thread, in Chu's post, the text he typed is running off the screen. When he says "experimenting with the code of life", everything between "experimenting" and "code" has run off the screen, and even though it's "there", you can't read it. This is at 1024x768, full screen, with WinXP, IE6.

 

[compudog]

Try clearing browser cache. It looks fine to me @ 1024X768, maximized, with both IE6 and Firefox.

 

[ViRGE]

Thanks for the advice, but no go.

 

[Jason Clark]

This one is simple, the link has no spaces in it and is rendered in one line. The div that it is contained in cuts it off after the end of the screen is reached. I'll pass it on, but this is another limitation of no breaks in text and html.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: JasonClark
This one is simple, the link has no spaces in it and is rendered in one line. The div that it is contained in cuts it off after the end of the screen is reached. I'll pass it on, but this is another limitation of no breaks in text and html.

It's not that hard to insert a break in links over X characters long.

 

[Jason Clark]

notfred, I doubt you've had to do it before, or you'd understand the problem with that.

Where in a link to you break it before you break the link? At what length do you break a line of text, dependant on screen resolution on browsers with JS disabled?

Not so easy 🙂

It is in our bug database though.

 

[Confused]

Jason, you could always do what other forum software does, which is that if a URL is over a certain amount of characters, then it will cut out the middle and replace what is displayed with ... and therefore you can limit the width that the page can be.

The other option is to do it EXACTLY like you did it in the version we were running before the downgrade, where ONLY the reply where the long link is posted causes the screen to require scrolling. I believe the reasoning behind this was "we load the table one row at a time, so the width is dynamic and it also allows the thread to be read as it is loading" (this also meant that rediculously long usernames looked slightly out of place, but at least the page didn't scroll if one numbnuts copy/pasted the longest URL in the world without adding some FT tags round it)


Garry

 

[Jason Clark]

That is what is on the books to do, in terms of cutting out the link text, again it is not as trivial as it sounds for many reasons.

In terms of the other version, it only did that out of html design. We use DIV's to cut down on html and move to a more css based layout, we aren't going to change that for a long link 🙂.

Neither of these issues are very high priority right now, but thanks for the feedback.

 

[Jason Clark]

Truncating urls, doesn't work if i do

blah blah blah REALLY LONG URL anyway, as you can truncate at 50 chars for the url, but there may have been text before it which negates the truncate. I guess if you really cared about people doing that, you could scan for LF's and truncate the text on a line. That gets very messy, very performance inhibitive and in my opinion a large waste of time, when people that post just need to take care.