Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Richard wrote:

>  The irony is just delicious - you can only get
> > to the review by clicking on 'User Friendly' (the comic strip by Illiad)
> > ;)))) Even if a genuine mistake (which it probably is ;), I'd like to
> > think that fate has a sense of humour....
> 
> Looks ok from over here :-)

You know, that's the damnedest thing I've ever seen. Here's the deal: yep,
the page is okay. However, I'm in Windows, at a screen resolution of
1024x768. If I maximise Netscape (4.51), the page displays fine. However,
having it non-maximised (I think it's around 800x600), the page obvious
squashes up. But the Debian GNU/Linux book is lost, and the link over
'User Friendly' is to the Debian book, except for the 20 or so right-most
pixels. The links over all the other books are fine. I'm going to have a
look and see if I can replicate this behaviour under other OSes (I imagine
I will be able to). There's nothing we can do about it, but it is
*extremely* strange. But not surprising (from NS) :(

> I have actually looked into this one with Mac, Windows and Linux
> browsers (not AIX or t'others) and I do find sometimes that there are
> some "sticky" JPEGS or GIFs that refuse to download properly. It's
> related to the browser and not the site that you look at.

Yes, I've had that, but I've never had the link over an image *change*.
It's like NS is almost re-writing the HTML, except it isn't, there's a bug
in the layout engine...

Heh, I bet I gave you a fright, anyway ;)) If anyone else notices problems
like that, I'd be interested, for comedy value alone...

Cheers,

Alex.

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