Is the Reply Box a bit too wide?

[Samantha]

I frequent a couple, three Web forums that use UBB. This one has a much wider reply box than the others. I like that it's wider, but it's so wide that I have to make the window really big to get the entire box to display. I have a 17" monitor at 1024x780 and I had to make this window in which I'm replying is nearly as wide as the monitor.

Is this a setting in the UBB setup? Anyone else think it could be perhaps a few characters more narrow?

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[Son of Zeus]

Samantha,

weird, really weird. It displays fine on my 14" monitor. It’s a ViewSonic 6E, but that wouldn't make any difference, would it?

Best of Luck.......Son of Zeus.

[ixl]

Samantha, welcome back! Was wondering what had happened to you. And here I implemented that thread tracking hack you wanted, and I thought you had left. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif
The reply box was made wider by me; it seemed retarded to have a tiny box that was hard to use on a big screen. Do you have very large fonts enabled in your browser? That could be the issue.
The web is in some ways a "battle" between content producers and viewers, each of which have some control over how things look. It was originally supposed to be the viewer who decided how everything looked, but things change over time.
As for the edit box, I can fairly easily change that to whatever people want. It is currently set to 75 columns; 45 is the default. Tell me what you want, folks, and I'll do it. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[Samantha]

Hi Chief,

Gee, nice to be missed. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif I'm not going anywhere. These forums are already my favorite computer-related ones.

Thanks for the tracking thing! What service!

My problem here probably originates with my browser of choice: Opera, The Little Browser That Could from Norway. I have it set up to use a fixed-width font form forms. It's large so that form boxes aren't too small on other sites. If this is OK for people who use those other non-standard, bloated browsers, then I'll live with it.



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[ixl]

Originally posted by Samantha:
Hi Chief,

Gee, nice to be missed. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif I'm not going anywhere. These forums are already my favorite computer-related ones.

Well, it's nice to be someone's favorite. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif Be sure to tell 100 of your closest friends about us. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

Thanks for the tracking thing! What service!

Well, I wanted to do it anyway. It was a real education for me in CGI and Perl, which I needed to do at some point. The code I adapted had bugs in it too, which didn't make things any easier!

My problem here probably originates with my browser of choice: Opera, The Little Browser That Could from Norway. I have it set up to use a fixed-width font form forms. It's large so that form boxes aren't too small on other sites. If this is OK for people who use those other non-standard, bloated browsers, then I'll live with it.

Hmm. I would agree that most webmasters run cable connections, orient their sites towards IE and NN and that's it. But in this case the webmaster does most of his browsing at a slow connection speed, using Lynx. I don't know Opera, but it can't be any simpler and lower-key than Lynx, and the edit box is fine in Lynx, text mode.

I'll bet that Opera has a setting for font size that you could adjust. I can change the code back to 45 columns but would prefer if there's some way you can get Opera to cooperate, because for everyone else having a teeny reply box doesn't make a lot of sense...

Thanks for raising the subject though!

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Comprehensive PC Reference, Troubleshooting, Optimization and Buyer's Guides...

[Samantha]

Chief,

I'm spreading the word far and wide.

On the box, as I said, I'll live with it. The width is a function of the font that I have selected in Opera for forms. I didn't know if it was only me and Opera or others as well. 45 characters is definitely too small!

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[Paleo Pete]

Must be just you Samantha, it works perfect for me on my ancient 14" Memorex Telex.

ixl: I like the bigger box, lots better than the smaller ones I usually see. Leave it if possible, or at worst, compromise to about 60 columns or so.

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