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megan walker - Feb 24, 2004 9:04:30 am PST #6617 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Okay, I've now tested this phenomenon on a number of sites and I definitely get different results switching between the two encoding settings, sometimes it's just the font, sometimes it's the graphics (on the upside, ISO eliminates banner ads). TWOP also switches itself back to the same encoding automatically with each page, Western European (Windows). Most other pages seem to default to that one as well (in my browser, at least).

I don't have any stylesheets attached via "Internet Options" and if I switch the font there from Times New Roman to Verdana (for example), then everything on The Phoenix becomes that font but one size (e.g. taglines aren't smaller and bolded) as they were before.

Besides being harder to read, I just find this bizarre as I've never changed any of these settings (besides long ago changing the text-size to smaller).

DXMachina - Feb 24, 2004 6:18:56 pm PST #6618 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Can locality settings override a style sheet? I'm not familiar enough to say.

I was unable to, try as I might. t /predictable

What version of IE are you using Megan?

I've noticed that I lose the style sheet and images when I'm using BitTorrent at high transfer rates, which must be some sort of resourse issue with that program. The page loads, but none of the additional files are received.

megan walker - Feb 25, 2004 8:12:03 am PST #6619 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I'm using IE 6, which, after some fiddling, uninstalling, then reinstalling, seems to now be working as before. I think the problem may have stemmed from the fact that initially I did the minimal installation but have now installed all possible additional components. Or, maybe my switching ISPs recently triggered something and I just had to reinstall.

No harm, no foul... just half the day wasted as per usual.

Rob - Mar 02, 2004 9:04:22 am PST #6620 of 10000

I think it would be safe to turn the random quote generator back on again.

Fred Pete - Mar 02, 2004 9:05:39 am PST #6621 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Tend to agree with Rob -- maybe a quote-of-the-day, Stompie time and priorities permitting?

§ ita § - Mar 02, 2004 9:06:39 am PST #6622 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

QotD is a hassle. Reinstating the random generator is much less so.

Fred Pete - Mar 02, 2004 9:20:49 am PST #6623 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Ah, didn't know that. Ignore the QotD part of my comment.

Jesse - Mar 02, 2004 9:24:23 am PST #6624 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ooh, they're so fun!

Were we going to see if we could downgrade our service at all? Otherwise, I need to start fundraising again pretty soon. Eh, I'll post about it anyway.

SuziQ - Mar 02, 2004 9:24:48 am PST #6625 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

pretty quotes - thanks ita!

Tom Scola - Mar 02, 2004 9:25:51 am PST #6626 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

That seems to have slowed the board down signifigantly.

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