My screen is not wide enuff!

[nels96]

I've not visited Techsurvivors for a while, so now I find that its messages run off the right side of my screen.

How do I fix it so the messages are all on the screen without  my having to move anything?

Thanks, nels96

[kelly]

Hi nels96.

What size is your Monitor?

What resolution do you have it set to?*










*Yes I know a sentence should not end a preposition with.

[krissel]

Which browser are you using?

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.

[nels96]

Hi kelly and Krissel

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

[Bill]

Nels,
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.

[nels96]

Been away for awhile, so I couldn't respond to the help.

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!

[krissel]

Hi Nels,

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.  

[Bill]

Krissel.
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.

[krissel]

That happened to me, too the first time I loaded the page. I resized the window and the correct icons showed up. Same thing on the reply page. Resized window and the smilies went back to their respective boxes.

 

I do wonder about those  ,  and    smilies. They seem to have an adventurous spirit.

   

[Gregg]

nels, I have the same problem with "wide posts" on TS. I also use NS 4.8 with OS9.2 -
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.
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.

[Gregg]

I also do not see an "edit post" icon. Where my previous post said "blank screen" it should
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".

[jepinto]

Unfortunately.....all the bulletin software we looked over, and let me tell ya we LOOKED, uses CSS, and NS 4.x don't do CSS  

The other side of the coin is the software that doesn't require CSS is either

• slow
• no longer supported by the authors.

The quandry is we KNOW we have many members using older browsers, but we also, quite frankly, got tired of answering "why is TS so slow?", "was the site down?" and "what happened to TS last night, yesterday, two days ago...?"

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.  

[Gregg]

Jennie, I won't try the NS download again. (I'm still on dial-up too!)What I may do is order the CD... one of these days. Thanks for the thorough explanation of the quandry, and all you do to keep this site running smoothly. (That goes for the other admins too!)  

[Bill]

Gregg.
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?

[Gregg]

Bang!

You didn't say I couldn't shoot!

No, I have not tried MS ...yech!... IE in 9 and have no plans to.