bug - Forum display width started exceeding screen

Goverp · Advocate Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2191

I've noticed this every so often, and then it goes away, so I don't bother to kick up a fuss. But I think I've guessed what's happening.
The issue is gentoo forum displays start being wider than my laptop's screen, so I have to scroll right to get the right hand margin and ends of sentences. (This isn't the problem where somehow lines don't get wrapped on certain posts. In those cases I've had to scroll right several times to read all the line. I assume it's some niggle in the post contents. I'm talking about a small excess, about 25 characters and thread- not post-related.) My laptop has a small screen, 1024x600.

It's currently happening on the politics of systemd - part 3 thread. My hypothesis is it starts when the number of pages exceeds 9, causing some width calculation to double-count the digits in the "Go to page" navigator at the top and bottom. That would explain why it's not a problem on most forums, After a while, it will go away because the forum gets split according to the rules, and the new "systemd - part 4" will have less than 10 pages, for a whlle, at least ;-)

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Akkara · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 10:00 am Post subject:

This usually happens because there's a long "word" (a string characters with no whitespace in them) that can't be word-wrapped properly. Emerge errors often contain these and so you'll find those kinds of threads tend to have this problem.

What pages on that thread are you having trouble with? All of them? Or just some of them? Currently, the only thing that stands out to me is there's a user whose signature contains such a long "word", and this might not be fitting in your screen width. Does this correlate with your experience?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 10:15 am Post subject:

Goverp,

To add to what Akkara said, the forum mods often fix these long lines but its a manual job.
Newer firefox seems to wrap these lines anyway, so I don't see as many as I used to :)

Feel free to report these threads.
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Chromium is still really bad at word-wrapping (but not just on this site). Putting this in a user CSS makes things much better:

Goverp · Advocate Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2191

Akkara, thanks you're right, there's a user with a long "word" in his sig that appears on every page but 8 of the relevant thread, and page 8 does format correctly.

Ant P. Thanks, but I'm not a Chromium user - Opera or konqueror (which seems to be alive-ish! with a WebEngine backend). Both show the problem.
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Chiitoo · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:02 pm Post subject: ><)))°€

I had been meaning to discuss the signature with said user for quite a while now, but since it wasn't that big of an issue, I never got to it.

Since there is an actual topic about it now, I have initiated a conversation towards a swift-like solution.

Thank you for reminding me about it! :]
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Zucca · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 8:49 pm Post subject:

Hi all.
I've changed my sig now. I didn't saw it breaking the layout on firefox... Although I use to keep my own custom zoom and font settings that might affect the behaviour.

I'll try to remember this next time I plan to change my sig.
Thanks. And sorry for all the broken layouts. ;)
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Akkara · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:49 pm Post subject:

Section_8 · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 627

My workaround for that is a button in the firefox bookmark toolbar with this code as the URL: