Could be a browser memory issue. You might think about rebooting your machine before something really nasty happens, like a freeze up.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 12:19:53 pm PST #2596 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Michele T. - Jan 03, 2003 1:32:22 pm PST #2597 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Minor point, but could we insert a t br in the Music thread slug at some point? It's the longest line of text on the page by a long shot, and makes for reading weirdness.
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 2:06:16 pm PST #2598 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Music thread slug
You mean on the front page / message center? I'm unclear on where a break would go and how it would help.
John H - Jan 03, 2003 2:25:52 pm PST #2599 of 10000
Lots of those thread slugs wrap on my browser/font-size/window-size anyway. I don't get how Music is any different.
DXMachina - Jan 03, 2003 2:32:36 pm PST #2600 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yup, it's supposed to wrap (edit: and it does in Mozilla).
It is twice as long as any other slug, though.
John H - Jan 03, 2003 2:42:11 pm PST #2601 of 10000
I think the basic principles of usability tell us that to let it wrap is better than to force it to break at a point which may look weird to some users.
[edited because trying to demonstrate the principle with the actual string was too hard]
If you put a break after Sondheim, for instance, there'll always be a user for whom "Sondheim" has wrapped onto the next line.
So it'll be like
...burns, mixtapes, club hits, and [wrap]
Sondheim [forced break]
Sarah Vaughan to the Mekons...
P.M. Marc - Jan 03, 2003 4:22:03 pm PST #2602 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Lameo girl wondering if the HTML in headers extends to making live links. Don't want to break anything.
DXMachina - Jan 03, 2003 4:23:17 pm PST #2603 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Do you mean the thread headers? You can put live links in the headers.
edit: I did it in some thread or another.
Michele T. - Jan 03, 2003 4:30:45 pm PST #2604 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Yeah, but another basic principle of usability is "overly-long lines of text are hard to read." Can we just force those lines to be shorter somehow?
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 5:13:49 pm PST #2605 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
You muste be using a very wide window, Michele, because (as John H. pointed out) the Music slug isn't the only one that wraps on my screen.