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Title: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Mongoose on April 24, 2009, 02:15:35 pm

Did anyone ever figure out why the highlights often display something like this?

(http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj1/PD_Top_Gun/FreeSpace/highlights.png)

Or am I the only poor sap who has it happen to them? :p

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Talon 1024 on April 24, 2009, 02:25:28 pm

Apparently that happens when your screen is set at 1024x768 resolution...  I can see it just fine in 1280x1024.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on April 24, 2009, 02:37:07 pm

There is a front page  :confused:

Seriously it's not the resolution I get it as well.  My guess is it's the text being longer on the first highlight throwing it off

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: captain-custard on April 24, 2009, 02:39:08 pm

click home at the top of the page.......

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Blue Lion on April 24, 2009, 02:42:27 pm

Shows up the funky way on mine. I'm like 1400x900 or some such nonsense.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 24, 2009, 02:43:05 pm

Nope, not fine at 1920*1080. FF3 and FF2 both do this.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Mongoose on April 24, 2009, 03:35:07 pm

I run at 1280x960 myself, and it displays like this more often than not, depending on which particular foursome of highlights is on display.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Talon 1024 on April 24, 2009, 09:17:38 pm

So it's obviously not a resolution problem, I see the box out of place too...  Another thing that's evident is that the first box contains a lot of text.  The site may use some kind of grid-fitting algorithm to place the highlight boxes, so if the first highlight box contains too much text, the next highlight box gets pushed down.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 24, 2009, 10:26:05 pm

That's what I thought, but why would some people not see it?

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on April 24, 2009, 10:50:30 pm

Different browser not interpreting the code the same?

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Zacam on April 25, 2009, 12:56:15 am

Or some people are cooler than others. :-)

FireFox 3.0.8/3.0.9 (with and without IETab), Chrome, Safari and IE 7/8 on my PC render it fine at 1680*1050.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on April 25, 2009, 01:05:02 am

That's odd. I have FF 3.0.8 on 1680x1050 as well, and they show up like Mongoose posted.  :confused:

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Goober5000 on April 25, 2009, 01:27:27 am

TEXT LENGTH. :p

The highlight boxes aren't fixed-size, so they stretch or shrink to adapt to the text.  We try to keep the text all the same number of lines, but that's not guaranteed to hold up over a variety of screen resolutions.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Mongoose on April 25, 2009, 03:14:01 am

Heh, adding that phrase to the Windmills highlight fixed it on my end, but I can't help but wonder now who else got screwed up by it. :p

Hypothetically, I feel like making the boxes fixed-size would probably be the best solution.  Text which overruns the maximum line length could default into ending in an ellipsis and having a text tag display the full caption.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Blue Lion on April 25, 2009, 09:07:54 am

Should project heads give little blurbs to fit in the space or should it keep being the way it is.

Title: Re: Highlight display on front page
Post by: Goober5000 on April 25, 2009, 05:46:10 pm

*shrug*