t happy note the use of a,b,c-style ordered list -- thanks Jon! t /happy
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
John H - Oct 23, 2002 10:09:24 pm PDT #886 of 10000
DXMachina - Oct 23, 2002 10:12:32 pm PDT #887 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
There's no need to apologize, John. WX did something unexpected with the random ads. One thought I had was that we could use WX's "Get all posts" URL to download the thread in much larger chunks (200-300 posts at a time), which would be more efficient, take less time, and probably simplify cleaning things up.
You know you don't really have to worry about any of this til you get back, right? Have fun!
Jon B. - Oct 23, 2002 10:21:35 pm PDT #888 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I believe that DX and John H. are correct. I've been testing a stylesheet with no font sizes in the P tag (and a couple of other related tags) and I think it will work with minimum side effects. I'll post something in Press and then upload the new stylesheet. If there are valid complaints by the late-night users, I can flip it back in the morning (i.e. in about 7 hours).
Beverly - Oct 23, 2002 10:50:27 pm PDT #889 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Netscape 4.8 on PC-Windows ME. The small fonts looked small to me, guys. The normal stuff looked normal. This is, however, (way) after Jon's post in Press, so it may have no relevancy at all. If so, 'scusi.
Jon B. - Oct 23, 2002 11:02:23 pm PDT #890 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I don't understand, Beverly. Do the small and normal fonts look different than before, or the same?
t edit Oh wait - you're talking about Rio's problem upthread? So you're saying it looks right to you now, but it didn't before?
Kat - Oct 23, 2002 11:09:46 pm PDT #891 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
WOW! All my fonts are huge now. It's kinda pleasant given my blindness. But whacky.
Netscape 4.78 Windows 95.
Beverly - Oct 23, 2002 11:39:22 pm PDT #892 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The small fonts are small on my screen, Jon, and always have been. Since you did whatever you said you were going to do (in your announcement in Press), nothing whatever seems to have changed on my screen.
I'm assuming this is a good thing, that I should be glad everything hasn't gone huge?
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2002 11:42:01 pm PDT #893 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Stuff's pretty large for me, Opera 6.05, W2K, but not unworkably so.
Rob - Oct 23, 2002 11:46:21 pm PDT #894 of 10000
Here's a different problem. Sometimes, from home, I can't read the Phoenix with Mozilla. I can read it fine with IE.
It doesn't always fail, but when it does, it seems to always hang forever with "Sending request to www.buffista.org..." in the status bar.
This never happens from work, only from home.
Not a big deal, just thought I'd mention it.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Explorer Version: 5.2.2 (5010.1)
DXMachina - Oct 24, 2002 6:00:31 am PDT #895 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Woo and Hoo, Jon! That's done the trick. It fixes that other glitch I mentioned, too.
One other reason that the font may seem bigger than usual is that the site's default font, Verdana, is designed for legibility, so the individual characters are a bit larger than the equivalent point size of Arial or Helvetica. You can adjust this by adjusting the font size settings in your browser preferences.
The side effect of reducing the default point size in the browser (if Verdana is not your browser default font) is that sites that don't use Verdana as a default are now displayed in teeny little letters.