testing signature. Wormholio is adding new code to the signature box. Add as long a graphical signature if you want to test along. :)

Checking if my sig now shows...
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Jord.

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If you have a short sig then you get no scroll bars, right?

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-- Rusty McGee Johnson

Well, let's see if this sig is short enough.

No scrolly bars. :)
And they are there with a large sig picture.
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Jord.

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scrolling the whole thread with mouse wheel, scrolling to top or bottom without problems. only when I point to empty space next to a signature first will it first only scroll the signature.
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Jord.

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On Linux with Firefox 1.0.8 it has the scroll bar next to each signature, regardless of how large it is.

But Firefox 1.5.0.20 on Linux seems to just truncate. Strange.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

The whole thread's page seem to be displayed cleanly and correctly on IE7. With Netscape/7.2 Ageless Steel's signature fields are some 7 text lines high and contain scrollbar at the right side. Only the topmost pixel line from large signature can be seen without scrolling.
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Peter .-)

I see a normal sig with no scroll bars, IE7.

I made mine nice and tall to see what happens.

edit: Even with both stats blocks in the long format I don't see scroll bars for my sig.
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Dirty John Rackham

I see a normal sig with no scroll bars, IE7.

I made mine nice and tall to see what happens.

edit: Even with both stats blocks in the long format I don't see scroll bars for my sig.

Firefox 2.0.0.2 has scroll bars for the sigs that have more than a single line.
Opera 9.02 also has scroll bars, but only for some of the longer sigs.
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Firefox 2.0.0.2 has scroll bars for the sigs that have more than a single line.

Oh, check that out. With IE 6 and not logged in (not necessary when checking for help), the signatures show in full. No scroll bars.
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Jord.

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Firefox 2.0.0.2 on Windows XP Pro.

No scrolls bars at all.

John's is cut off after Predictor and I can only see the text part of Jord's.

[off topic]

And why all that blank space at the end of my previous post???
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Kathryn :o)
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Opera 9.02 and 9.10 both show scroll bars.

And so does Netscape 8.1.2.

And so does Firefox 1.5.0.10 (different computer than the other tests, but still XP Pro)

And why all that blank space at the end of my previous post???

[OT] as it is not predictable, what or how many names will Ageless / Stainless / Cutlass / ... ;-) try in the near future, I'll call him Jord in the time being.[/OT]
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Peter .-)

[OT] as it is not predictable, what or how many names will Ageless / Stainless / Cutlass / ... ;-) try in the near future, I'll call him Jord in the time being.[/OT]

This
is
somehow
we
can
say
a
very
very
tall
but
thin
post
without
any
meaning
nor
appended
signature
to
it
at
the
message
tail
end
let
us
see
how
will
it
look
like
?

Very short message.

Hehehehe...

Nice long message Peter :)

You might be right about the stuff under the avatar.


Hmmmm.... wonders what it would look like if I turn off avatars...

::goes to check::

Peter, you're right about the height of the message box being related to the amount of stuff under the avatar.


However an even more interesting thing happened with that little experiment. Where I didn't have the scroll bars before on FF 2.0.0.2, I now have them.

::goes to turn avatars back on::

[edit]Well the scroll bars are still there after turning avatars back on. It makes my head hurt to wonder why it wasn't working before, so I'll leave that headache to our fearless leader[/edit]

Oh... so NOW I see this thread...

screenshot

Messed up in FF 2.0.0.2, Windows XP. Displays properly in IE6.

It's a nice roadblock for those of us who use a scroll wheel.
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Just curious to see how mine looks....

[edit]oops, it's been turned off.....[/edit]

MJ
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Hail, Poetry, thou heav'n-born maid!
Thou gildest e'en the pirate's trade.
Hail, flowing fount of sentiment!
Hail, all hail, divine emollient!

Not sure if its still needed, But here is my grossly too large sig. I also see no scrolling using I.E.6 with Avant.
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5.10.21/Xp-Pro/6600gt/3800x2

Sig back to normal. I saw scroll bars with firefox but not with IE7.

edit: Well maybe not normal, BOINCstats has colors and junk to play with now.
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Dirty John Rackham

The setting we are testing is the 'overflow' in CSS for the signature block. It can be set to 'hidden', which always truncates, or 'auto', which lets the browser decide how to best handle the overflow (eg. create a scrollbar).

We had been using 'hidden' for a long while, after a discussion about excessive sig length on BOINC projects. The crew responded with short sigs, sometimes wider, and some animated blocks that show each project in turn. All improvments, in my view at least.

Last week I turned on 'auto' to try it out, though I turned it off again yesterday for a bit. I'm now turning it back on. I've also set it to 'auto' for the body of the post and set the max width to 100%. That could/should result in a horizontal scroll bar for text that would stick out to the right.

I'd like to collect data on how different browsers deal with these settings. The reports can come in here, but the final results could be tabulated on a wiki page.

We already have some data above, but for the 'auto' setting there is no 'right' or 'wrong' way to display the text, even though you may find one or the other more pleasing or annoying. What we need is a description of exactly how the browser renders the block. Is it simply truncated as it was with the 'hidden' setting? Is there always a scroll bar, or does it only appear if the block of text is too tall or wide? Anything else different which should be noted?

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Well, For me I don't see any change for anyone's sigs, They are either all as I would see elsewhere (Including myself's), Or none at all really. I haven't seen any scroll bar at all. I also tried with just IE 6 but it was the same result.
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5.10.21/Xp-Pro/6600gt/3800x2

Testing horizontal scroller. Seems to work. ;-)
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Jord.

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