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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.

DXMachina - Oct 24, 2002 6:01:56 am PDT #896 of 10000

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Rob, I use Mozilla on a PC both at home and at work, and I haven't had any problems, except on those evenings when the hosting service has been down, like last Monday(?) night.

Theodosia - Oct 24, 2002 6:31:07 am PDT #897 of 10000

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Yeah, I had to go and reduce the Normal font size in Opera. Not a big problem.

Sheryl - Oct 24, 2002 6:47:27 am PDT #898 of 10000

Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Um, I'm noticing that quoted material is showing rather small on my machine. (Everthing else is the same size as before) Anyone else seeing that?

Jon B. - Oct 24, 2002 6:54:21 am PDT #899 of 10000

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Quoted material uses a fixed width font which probably has a separate adjustment in your browser's preferences.

Rio - Oct 24, 2002 9:15:48 am PDT #900 of 10000

Are you ready to be strong?

The smallfont problem is now fixed for me!

You guys are geniuses!

Big ups!!!

megan walker - Oct 24, 2002 9:41:49 am PDT #901 of 10000

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I apologize if this has been asked before but,

Is there anyway I can get the old threadsuck program that someone wrote for TT threads to work here? I've tried it using the URL for the first post but no luck.

I'd love to actually read some of Natter but only go on-line once a day from home (so I can barely keep up with the main show threads). If I could download it, that would be great. Thanks!

§ ita § - Oct 24, 2002 9:44:03 am PDT #902 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The threadsuck program won't work (as you noticed). I am working on a similar functionality, but it's not in my immediate future.

Betsy HP - Oct 24, 2002 10:14:37 am PDT #903 of 10000

If I only had a brain...

Thank you, Jon. WHoohoo.

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