vBB edit message window

[TechnoViking]

My edit message window for new/reply topics is only 2-3" wide. Is that normal, could the width be increaed?

Thanks,
Mike

[Simon]

It looks normal to me....pretty much identical to the "Post Reply" window. Or the "Post New Topic" window.

The textarea is set to what looks like about 40 columns wide (note: inches mean nothing....it's all about pixels and resolution).

[TechnoViking]

It is something to do with Netscape 7.0. In Netscape my Message edit window is 37 character wide in IE 6 it is 58 character across.

Mike

[Simon]

Probably. Netscape blows. One of the worst implementations of HTML/CSS/etc. to ever hit the market.

Don't get me started on it

[Jerry A!]

Originally posted by dsimon
Probably. Netscape blows. One of the worst implementations of HTML/CSS/etc. to ever hit the market.

Don't get me started on it

But he said he was using Netscape 7. That's the version based off the Mozilla/Gecko codebase.

If nothing else, it does adhere to the w3c standards for html/css/css2.

Now rendering speed definitely has room for improvement.

[TechnoViking]

Originally posted by dsimon
Probably. Netscape blows. One of the worst implementations of HTML/CSS/etc. to ever hit the market.

But it stops pop-ups ads .

Mike

[Simon]

Gah!

I <b>told</b> you not to get me started...

It adheres to the W3C, you say? Let's take a look at this with a fairly simple (and very useful) example:

The W3C specifies that displayable elements should have a DOM attribute called "display". This value should be readable and writeable.

This is a very useful thing. Users of Hero Central can attest to this (it's how I hide old messages and have them appear when you click on the title -- without reloading the page).

Now....Netscrape/Mozilla/Gecko <b>do</b> in fact have this attribute. They even make it readable and writeable.

So why am I complaining?

Because their implementation of it is so mind-numbingly stupid as to defy any attempt at rational thought:

You can change the display value of an object to be "none" (hidden). You can change the display value of an object to be "block" or "inline" (visible). <b>However</b>, since the browsers all suffer from the misconception that a page should be rendered once and once only, <b>nothing about your display will change</b>. The page will not be redrawn...the items will not be shown.

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I'll just get down off of my soap box now and pipe down

This is just the kind of thing that really ticks me off. <b>HORRIBLE</b> software.

[Simon]

Originally posted by Mike Basinger
But it stops pop-ups ads .

Mike

Sure (poorly)...and so does any number of freely available applications that don't claim to be web browsers. And which work with any web browser you care to use.

[TechnoViking]

Originally posted by dsimon
Sure (poorly)...and so does any number of freely available applications that don't claim to be web browsers. And which work with any web browser you care to use.

Dan,
Any software you would suggest? The last time I tried a 3rd party pop-up ad blocker it made my Windows system very unstable.

Mike

[Fuzzy Gnome]

Originally posted by Mike Basinger
Dan,
Any software you would suggest? The last time I tried a 3rd party pop-up ad blocker it made my Windows system very unstable.

Mike

Not Dan, but...
I had the same thing happen. Now I'm using IE6 with the security cranked and I haven't had a pop-up in months.
Even from pr0n 5it35.

[Balok]

Mike: It's not free (it was, but not anymore), but I like AdSubtract. You can download an eval version, and the paid version isn't too expensive -- around $30.

I've found that, once I got the hang of configuring it properly, this software kills most ads. It also allows to configure whether cookies can be dropped on a site by site basis, lets you control referrers, background images, auto refresh, and regular ads.

More details at the manufacturer's site.