Adverts next to photos make it too wide

[Pigeon]

Example: this thread, post by Racing Teatray with Saab pic.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Having the advert next to the pic makes the page exceed the width of the screen so it is impossible to read it without scrolling sideways all the time.

[MitchT]

Your screen is too small

[Pigeon]

19 inch CRT running at 1024x768. Bloody hard to get anything bigger without either spending a fortune or having to settle for some piece of ste LCD crap.

[MitchT]

23" 1920x1200

[Mr Will]

It's a bug that we are aware of, but because of the way the pages work it is quite a tricky one to fix.

It's on the list though, so we will try to get it sorted!

[miniman]

Pigeon said:

having to settle for some piece of ste LCD crap.

[Pigeon]

LCD image quality sucks ass compared to CRT.

Mr Will said:

It's a bug that we are aware of, but because of the way the pages work it is quite a tricky one to fix.

It's on the list though, so we will try to get it sorted!

Nice one

[Mr Will]

Pigeon said:

LCD image quality sucks ass compared to CRT.

Much kinder on the eyes though...

[sublimatica]

Mr Will, couldn't the topic display template be formed of a list of <div> tags rather than a single table, so that if an individual <div> is forced too wide because of a photo with an advert or a single long string of characters, only that one post is wider than the screen rather than the whole thread?

This solution seems so simple to me

[Xenocide]

Pigeon said:

19 inch CRT running at 1024x768. Bloody hard to get anything bigger without either spending a fortune or having to settle for some piece of ste LCD crap.

That's a tiny res for a monitor of that size. I used to run a 17" at 1600*1200

[pc.iow]

sublimatica said:

Mr Will, couldn't the topic display template be formed of a list of <div> tags rather than a single table, so that if an individual <div> is forced too wide because of a photo with an advert or a single long string of characters, only that one post is wider than the screen rather than the whole thread?

This solution seems so simple to me

You'd like to think so.
Still the same today...

[PetrolTed]

sublimatica said:

Mr Will, couldn't the topic display template be formed of a list of <div> tags rather than a single table, so that if an individual <div> is forced too wide because of a photo with an advert or a single long string of characters, only that one post is wider than the screen rather than the whole thread?

This solution seems so simple to me

Floating divs can be dead tricky to manage which is why I went for a table layout.

I think in the initial version of the software the code looked for a pic tag in the adjacent cell and either didn't display an ad or delayed it until the next row. The current version is a bit more complex (in order to produce a smaller and tidier markup) and probably lost that ability. I suspect a bit of javascript is the quick solution.