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Title: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Wanderer on June 20, 2008, 09:31:03 am
The pulldown menu which is shown when moving the cursor over the 'Hosted...' and 'External Sites...' does not work properly on FF3. Between each entry there is a (transparent) gap. Dunno if it is the Firefox 3.0 or the site though and thought it might be better to report it here first.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Goober5000 on June 20, 2008, 09:53:16 am
Screenshot?
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 20, 2008, 09:59:41 am
(http://i26.tinypic.com/2i9jbyq.png)

and also, the "External Sites" bar is impossible to use, because when you try to click one of the submenus, it exits out of the menus.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 20, 2008, 10:03:30 am
Causes some menus to become quite unusable (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/menubarff3.jpg).
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Goober5000 on June 20, 2008, 10:06:44 am
Well, it works on FF2 and IE...
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 20, 2008, 10:20:41 am
But not on FF3.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qrlaxbrv3vt
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Shade on June 20, 2008, 10:23:43 am
Yes. That's what the first post says :p
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Hades on June 20, 2008, 04:06:17 pm
It also works on Opera 9.5. The site probably has compatibility issues with FF 3 because it just came out.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 20, 2008, 04:08:31 pm
The site probably has compatibility issues with FF 3 because it just came out.
Or FF has a compatibility issue with the site. Has had since, what, Beta 4.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: tinfoil on June 20, 2008, 04:12:52 pm
works better than ie for me. shows text shadows when ie just highlites
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: achtung on June 20, 2008, 08:09:52 pm
*snip*

and also, the "External Sites" bar is impossible to use, because when you try to click one of the submenus, it exits out of the menus.

You seem to enjoy this place quite a bit.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 20, 2008, 08:23:09 pm
What place?

EDIT: That's how I view unread topics. I open them all, and then reply one by one.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Aardwolf on June 21, 2008, 05:22:01 pm
I've got the exact same problem. Please fix it.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 21, 2008, 05:27:49 pm
I've got the exact same problem. Please fix it. You most make an update.
Fixed.

Just use another browser, like Firefox 2 or Opera. For now, at least.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 21, 2008, 07:55:09 pm
You love to abuse that guy.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: taylor on June 23, 2008, 01:11:58 pm
Was bored enough to research this a bit and look for a fix:

The problem is that FF3 supports the new CCS2.1 draft, which changed the rules for margin collapsing.  Those elements in the navbar have a margin of 3px for the top.  If I'm reading the new spec properly, the way that the navbar is set up makes FF3 honor the margin while old browsers, or browsers not following the updated 2.1 spec, don't.  It doesn't appear to be a browser bug in other words.

Changing the margin to 0 for "#navigation li ul li" should fix it (I think that the right margin is collapsed in all browsers, so there shouldn't be a reason for it to stay).  Also be aware that there are two "#navigation li ul li" in the navbar CSS, both of them the same, so the extra one should be removed.

That simple fix appears to work properly in both FF3 and Opera 9.5 at least. :)
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Goober5000 on June 23, 2008, 07:01:42 pm
K, done.  To all FF3 users: see if that fixed it.  (Force-refresh if necessary.)  Please also check the main HLP page (www.hard-light.net).
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 23, 2008, 07:25:57 pm
Works.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Goober5000 on June 23, 2008, 07:56:57 pm
On both, or just the forums?
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 23, 2008, 08:41:38 pm
Just the forums.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Goober5000 on June 23, 2008, 08:56:43 pm
Try the main page now.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Wanderer on June 24, 2008, 01:27:09 am
For me the bar works both in forums as well as on the main page
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Fenrir on June 24, 2008, 01:35:21 am
It`s working fine for me now. Thanks guys!
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 24, 2008, 02:35:43 am
Hell yeah. Much obliged.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: taylor on June 24, 2008, 08:05:47 am
Another helpful change as well:  for "#navigation li ul li a" change width to "auto", add "min-width: 11em;" and "max-width: 20em;".

That helps make sure that the text doesn't overflow and makes it so you can add new content to the list without having to tweak the width element yourself to make it fit.  The width will simply adjust to fit the content (based on font size), but will keep a minimum size of 11 and a max of 20 so that it doesn't get out of control. :)
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 24, 2008, 08:13:19 am
Hmm. Except that The FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project and Game Warden are a bit too low and accessing them requires awesome ninja skills (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/ff3issue.jpg).
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: taylor on June 24, 2008, 08:28:22 am
Hmm. Except that The FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project and Game Warden are a bit too low and accessing them requires awesome ninja skills (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/ff3issue.jpg).
It's far worse using Opera.  I'm going to work on that tonight though so that it will work as expected on both Opera and FF.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Goober5000 on June 24, 2008, 09:49:13 pm
Another helpful change as well:  for "#navigation li ul li a" change width to "auto", add "min-width: 11em;" and "max-width: 20em;".
K, done. :)
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: taylor on June 25, 2008, 01:58:17 pm
For the sub-menu fix (on "External Sites..."):

That fixes it for FF and Opera.  Haven't tested in IE though (since I don't use Windows and don't feel like installing up ie4linux right now).
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Goober5000 on June 26, 2008, 12:19:39 pm
K, changed.
Title: Re: FF3 and the HLP menu bar
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 26, 2008, 12:22:01 pm
Ah, much better.