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Title: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: lanux128 on October 10, 2006, 11:30 PM

have anyone noticed that sometimes the posts have scrollbars eventhough there is nothing to scroll? there isn't even a line-feed or hard return. in my case, i usually hit 'enter' twice to get rid of them. anyone with a better solution?

the mysterious scroll-bar
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Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: app103 on October 11, 2006, 12:03 AM

I haven't seen that one, but I have seen a lot of whitespace...and the longer the post the bigger the space:

http://appsapps.info/stuff/whitespace.png

And it doesn't happen all the time...but it happens often and it's a royal pain.

You don't want to know what it's like for me to look at this post:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=5440.0

That page has so much whitespace that SnagIt chokes on it and can't capture the page. :o

Those scrollbars you get would be a blessing to me.

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: lanux128 on October 11, 2006, 12:20 AM

That page has so much whitespace that SnagIt chokes on it and can't capture the page. :o

Those scrollbars you get would be a blessing to me.

-app103 (October 11, 2006, 12:03 AM)

wow, i have to agree with you.. all those whitespaces is sure to get on people's nerves. so, it's just not me who is having these kind of problems.. btw, i am using firefox 1.5.x

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: mouser on October 11, 2006, 12:35 AM

that sure is weird..
can i get a clarification from people who have different browsers installed as to which browsers this occurs on? i've never seen this problem myself.

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: JavaJones on October 11, 2006, 01:07 AM

Never seen it. Opera 8.52 here.

- Oshyan

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: mwb1100 on October 11, 2006, 01:19 AM

I've never seen either problem.  Currently running Firefox 1.5.0.2 on WinXP SP2.

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: app103 on October 11, 2006, 02:04 AM

AOL Explorer 1.5 (IE 6 - XP Home SP2)

I thought it was just me having this whitespace problem.

Seems to only occur when opening pages in a new tab from a link (like the unread posts page)...and only this forum. I don't have a problem with other websites or other forums.

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: lanux128 on October 11, 2006, 02:23 AM

Seems to only occur when opening pages in a new tab from a link (like the unread posts page)...and only this forum.

-app103 (October 11, 2006, 02:04 AM)

in my case, if i use the delete key or backspace key then the scrollbars will appear when previewed.

maybe we can start a poll to see how many are affected by these mystery scrollbars and whitespaces. ;)

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: mouser on October 11, 2006, 02:27 AM

app, can you check out www.simplemachines.org and see if you have the problem on their forum?

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: lanux128 on October 11, 2006, 02:51 AM

tks for the tip, mouser. and on the forums, i found this (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=52260.0). any chance it could be the reason?

i'm going to search for the whitespace problem as well..

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: app103 on October 11, 2006, 05:00 AM

app, can you check out www.simplemachines.org and see if you have the problem on their forum?

-mouser (October 11, 2006, 02:27 AM)

If it has a lot of posts like this page, I do:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=114669.0

screenshot:

http://appsapps.info/stuff/smfwhitespace.png

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: jgpaiva on October 11, 2006, 07:15 AM

Opera 9.02 and a bunch of previous versions. Never seen any of the bugs mentioned :)

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: lanux128 on October 11, 2006, 08:13 PM

app, maybe it's a problem with AOL Explorer? you can try installing it on some other PC and view this forum to see if the problem is replicated.

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: app103 on October 12, 2006, 12:16 AM

app, maybe it's a problem with AOL Explorer? you can try installing it on some other PC and view this forum to see if the problem is replicated.

-lanux128 (October 11, 2006, 08:13 PM)

No can do...my other pc is WinME, which can't run AOLex.  :(

And this seems to only happen with SMF forums. I would be interested in knowing if other IE based tabbed browsers have this problem too....like Maxthon, maybe?

Title: Re: what's with the scroll-bars?
Post by: lanux128 on October 12, 2006, 01:40 AM

i use maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com/) as an alternate browser to view sites that give problems in firefox. why not use the same method? it's an easy way out. ;)