Mac specific issues with new layout
 

Thought I'd start a thread for any mac specific issues with the new layout, as although we are a small percentage of the population, we can be quite vocal :D

First up: The dark grey bar containing the sub-options for the selected option from the light grey bar does not stretch across the full screen width in Safari. This applies to the whole style, not just the forum.

Looking at the html I see the following section:

The part causing the problem for safari is the second of the < tr height=
25" > table commands.

If I change that to 50, it does then display correctly in Safari but that then screws up in Firefox and probably PC browsers too.

It is obviously something specific to Safari. I'm going to have a play around with a saved copy of the html and see if I can find a workaround. If not then we'll just have to live with it. It's not a massive problem to be honest.


If anyone else has any other Mac specific issues, post them here :)

yes i do.
simon told me to get a proper computer !!! the cheek of the man

By proper, does he mean one that constantly crashes, breaks down, requires constant updates of drivers for every tiny part, is awkward to use, ugly to look at, difficult to work on and as boring as it is predictable ? Or does he mean a stylish, efficient, reliable, attractive, fast and easy to use Mac :lol1:

oh god.. I think we all know where this is heading!! :D

Markus. Thanks for looking into it. Let me know if you find a fix.

At the absolute worst case, we'll make a compeletely different header for mac users. But obviously a more straight forward fix would be better :D

All mac related bugs can be ironed out by this hardware fix

http://mfinley.com/gif/sledgehammer.jpg

Followed by this upgrade

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/...resized200.jpg

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

what a tool :eek:

(you are)

miss, miss he posted a picture of a DELL...please put him in the corner with the spethial needs people .

you might have got away with it if you have posted a pic of any other pc other than a dell....:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

you snitch:razz: baggings for you after school:D

What about a Gateway, the PC answer to the ever so stylish iMac...

http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/0..._profile_6.jpg

:eek: I may be sick :nono:

Oh the irony:lol1: I hope thats alcohol induced rather than your lack of "special needs " schooling shining through:p

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

have you been in KOT's living room for that picture ????

yeah of course..i always replace a "c" with a "th" :iamwithst

Sweet mother of jesus:eek: thats about as stylish as swisstonys wardrobe:D

(sorry swiss no one comes in fight club anymore)

Seems your shift key is up the khaiser as well, doesnt happen with quality pc keyboards:razz: :D

I know which I prefer...

http://img.clubic.com/photo/000000C800148209.jpg

yeah, £4.99 really buys you quality :lol1: :lol1:

aww diddums, are you lonely in fight club ??
















well :hjtwofing you
:D

My web design skills are a tad rusty :D I think the actual problem is more to do with the way Safari renders pages compared to other browsers, as I've seen behaviour like this before and ground my teeth over it as I've not found an easy way to fix it to make it browser or platform independant without a fair bit of recoding.

The only quick fix I could think of (but have not tried yet, might do it tomorrow) involves having Javascript browser detection code to see if the browser if safari and if so, change the second the second of the < tr height= "25" > table commands to the second of the < tr height="50" >

It does of course lack elegance. The only other thing I can think of is to possibly change the css for the second grey menu so that tables are not being used to position it. If I get a spare moment tomorrow I might play around with some CSS and see if I can work out if that is possible and how much work is involved in doing it. From the look of things the code for that section is the same across all pages, thus a search and replace could be used to change it, so it might not be a massive change, then again, it could be.

I'll report back when I can.

You know what markus....I can live with it, it is so minor, but as we were all in the spirit of bug testing last night, I thought I would bring it up :)

Definately is a safari issue more than a mozilla one.

but hey..as we are a paltry 0.2% then i guess it dosent matter that much :lol1:

Simon told me it had risen to 1% over christmas, Macs sales are on the up :D or it could be me getting my powerbook fixed :lol1:

i'd like to see the header thing fixed, small things like that annoy the hell out of me :D

another bug (i've already mentioned it to Simon) but im not sure if it safari related or not, is that it loads to the right hand side of the page until fully loaded, then centres into the middle, looks a bit crap :p

You're quite correct about the load issue to, just noticed it myself. I'm guessing it's something to do with how/when the actual "meat" of the forum is loaded.

It would be nice to see the header fixed, it's a niggle more than a show stopper.

someone else mentioned that last night with a screenshot in the general sticky. it didnt get a response from simon, but yes i noticed it on my two macs, though not so bad on a pc running ie7. it definately is linked with loading as it is more pronounced on slower computers . one time i could read nearly the whole left column and all the posts, before it had shifted left again :D

Ticker problem fixed (I think!)
 

I *think* I might have come up with a simple fix for the grey "ticker" banner. Makes sense now we have the ticker as to what that section was to be used for.

Anyway, onto how I think I've fixed it.

The problem code block is as follows with the problematic line in red:


The alleged fixed code block is as follows, with the correction in red:

The change is to move the height declaration from the TR tag into the TD tag.

I've tested in in Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) and Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.8. I've also given it a quick test in IE7 and Firefox 1.5 and 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP SP2.

If anyone wants to test the file then have a look here and see if it works for you. It might not as that's a page on my local site, but it does seem to load everything correctly as the html page contains full references to the various files.

working on mac here, good job :thumb:

Good to know it's working for someone else :)

will give it a try.. stand by

ok..

good news is : it still works ok in IE and FF.

So.. is that any better?

ROFL..

WELL DONE MARKUS!! :D

You've finally been of some use!!!! ;)

My word, I think the chap's fixed the blighter!

bet when you woke up this morning, you never guessed you would be saying that :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

Glad to be of service. See, us Mac users do have our uses :D

imagine how crap this site would look & run without us us ;):D

but we are only 0.2%, what difference can we make ? :D