Post by: nels96 on May 20, 2003, 05:03:29 PM
How do I fix it so the messages are all on the screen without my having to move anything?
Thanks, nels96
Post by: kelly on May 20, 2003, 06:59:02 PM
What size is your Monitor?
What resolution do you have it set to?*
*Yes I know a sentence should not end a preposition with.
Post by: krissel on May 20, 2003, 10:58:49 PM
And which theme/skin have you set for use?
Most of the skins should shrink with the size of the window.
However, the Mac X lite and the Tubey light are based on a more restricted table setup.
If you are using either one of those, try one of the others.
Post by: nels96 on May 21, 2003, 01:04:22 PM
Using an iMac 15" monitor
on a res of 1024 x 768 which suits all my other activities
Using Netscape 4.8
What is a theme/skin ? and where do I select them ?
Thanks, nels 96
Post by: Bill on May 21, 2003, 01:43:44 PM
go to your "my controls" above.
From there down on the left in "options" you'll see Skin and Languages.
Check them out with the preview feature.
Post by: nels96 on June 20, 2003, 02:46:37 PM
But I tried to follow them and got nowhere. Still all my TS messages run off the right side of my screen. Using NS 4.8, on iMac, running OS 9.2, standard theme and skin.
What am I missing?
nels96
Can't even get clickable smilies to work!
Post by: krissel on June 20, 2003, 09:30:09 PM
I'm afraid the older versions of Netscape don't recognize the stylesheets that tell how large the table should be for the answer pages. I'm presently in Netscape 4.6.1 checking and I do see the pages extending off to the right. The tables for the thread list are OK, they abide by the percentage.
I'm going to do some studying to see if there is a way to alter the stylesheet to allow for older browsers but don't hold your breath waiting for a solution from me.
Your best bet is to upgrade to Netscape 7 which for the most part reads the instructions correctly.
BTW, I didn't have too much trouble with the smilies though three of them seemed to congregate in one block and duplicate creating kind of a smilie love-fest.
Post by: Bill on June 20, 2003, 10:58:26 PM
Ran over to NS4.7.8. Well walked. Wasn't in that much of a hurry.
Not only the scrolling .. check out the missing button.
Then I cleared the cashe and dropped it down to 256 from 7800 and the button came back.
Post by: krissel on June 21, 2003, 09:09:03 PM
I do wonder about those
, and smilies. They seem to have an adventurous spirit.
Post by: Gregg on June 22, 2003, 04:27:43 PM
Unfortunately, upgrading to 7.x has not even been a "good bet" for me.
I did install 7.01 awhile back, but could not get the e-mail app to work.
After posting here, and one or two replies that did not uncover the solution,
I gave up. (That's when I upgraded from 4.77 to 4.8)
Yesterday, I attempted to install NS 7.02 with astonishing results.
For the first time I can ever remember, an installation failed. I got some
mysterious error message telling me the installer quit. So did I.
It's NS 4.8 or nothing for me. In addition to "wide posts" I get smilies jumping around,
(one was on a recent post of mine that I did not put there) and when people put images
into their posts, they sometimes cover up the next post. I could not read krissel's post,
at 8:09, until I got this window to work [see below] and Bill's image covered her previous
post because of the order reversal.
The other thing that happens is that I often have to try several times to get the
window I am now typing in to appear. Sometimes "Post Reply" gives me a blank screen,
other times I get everything except the "typing window". It took 3 attempts this time.
I usually visit TS while at work, on a Dell. That may soon be the only avenue I'll use.
Post by: Gregg on June 22, 2003, 04:38:55 PM
have said "blank window". [Ok, I found the "edit post" button - off to the far right, of
course. So I'll also mention that I have a 17" monitor (1152X870) and I usually click on
"increase font size" in The View menu twice!]
Yes, I am hitting return, just like a typewriter, so that I don't produce a "wide post".
Post by: jepinto on June 22, 2003, 07:15:51 PM
The other side of the coin is the software that doesn't require CSS is either
- slow
- no longer supported by the authors.
As many members know, we are volunteers doing this, not always knowledgeable in all aspects of web design, and frankly, we DON'T KNOW HOW to write a style sheet compatrible with older browsers.
Please try to upgrade your browser, to another brand, if need be, so we can continue to share the pleasure of your company.
I'm running Netscape 7.01 on an iMac 333 with 9.1, 384M ram and on a 6400/G3 400 upgraded, also 9.1 with only 136M ram
Kris runs a flavor of IE, Dreambird uses NS 4.7x for most things and Opera for the board..
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And Gregg please, please, please, try NS 7 again. You may have gotten a bad download, and Mail works great! It is my only mail client. I have one complaint, on both Macs, when sending an email, it ties up the browser, I can't surf and send at the same time, and if the connection to the outgoing mail server is bad, and oh oh my, Direcway's is!, you can watch carrots grow waiting for an email to go out. On the other hand, sending an email on the PC doesn't do the same thing.
Post by: Gregg on June 23, 2003, 07:39:09 AM
Post by: Bill on June 23, 2003, 10:07:38 AM
I tried experimenting around with the cashe in 4.7.8. some.
Dropping the cashe to zero doesn't make much of a difference between 256 cashe.
.... errr .... don't bark at the massager .... have you tried IE in 9?
Post by: Gregg on June 23, 2003, 12:31:27 PM
You didn't say I couldn't shoot!
No, I have not tried MS ...yech!... IE in 9 and have no plans to.
Post by: Dreambird on June 23, 2003, 02:32:41 PM
But Opera 5 is cool, handles the board very well and doesn't interfere with NS4.76 or anything else at all... in fact I almost always have both running at the same time now.
You could give that a try... I believe you can get it for 30 free (no ad banners) and after that you can keep it for free with ad banners or pay the fee and get rid of them, which is what I did. I don't regret it...
But if you want to go the banner route you can at least in the preferences specify what you'd like to see, so you aren't bombarded with stuff that doesn't interest you.
I'm finding that unfortunately for Classic MacOS the options for browsers are dwindling... most every, especially the free ones are OS X only, which is something I'm just not ready for. I too was NOT going to put IE on the machine!
Post by: nels96 on June 23, 2003, 03:00:52 PM
I'm the guy who started this string, (my screen aint wide enuff!) and after reading all the messages, I finally got it thru my thick skull to try TS on IE5. Eureka!
So now I go thru the minor inconvenience of getting TS on IE5, tho all my usual activity is on NS4.8. BTW, IE also solved the other problem I had with the new TS format, i.e. text too small to read.
Of course, I realize that compromises like this will accumulate until they become too much to handle. But I think it will be worth it for a long time.
Thanks all, nels96