Length of topic title

[softwaresorcerer]

Why can some people get long titles to their topics, but mine are restricted to much shorter lengths?

Is there a trick I'm missing here?

[Zorro]

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[softwaresorcerer]

Zorro said:

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That's more for staying power than length though, isn't it?

[FourWheelDrift]

You'll be using Firefox then?

[softwaresorcerer]

FourWheelDrift said:

You'll be using Firefox then?

Yes, but I have the same issue with IE6

[chrisjl]

For a reason I can't guess, the page that each browser receives is different in terms of allowable text for that field (and other things?)

Firefox 0.9.3 is given a size of 33, and a max of 60.
IE 6 gets 50 (max 60).

The size figure limits how much you can type, the max determines how wide the box appears. Dunno why the size differs by browser.


>> Edited by chrisjl on Friday 17th September 21:07

[Tripps]

It could depent on the browser ID Firefox provides to the web server in the HTTP request (talking techy after a few drinks is dangerous) - depending on what Ted uses to craft his HTML (I've always assumed he's a hand-crafted ASP kinda guy) he may interpret the end browser differently and hence sent different results.

For example IE and Netscape always pretended to be Mosaic, which was from way before the Internet got popular back in the early nineties, this was a desktop browser and always had decent real estate.

Firefox (which I know nothing of) may be quite honest in what it pretends to be, and hence the PH logic may misunderstand the platform form-factor it is responding to (ie. think it's a PDA etc.) and respond accordingly.

However I could well be spewing complete crap

[Pigeon]

ISTR Ted posting an explanation of things like this a while back... older versions of Mozilloid browsers had to use stunted reply boxes and title entry fields. Newer versions don't, but Ted hasn't updated the code - maybe it's not trivial to deduce the required version info? - apparently you can get around it by changing the user agent string so Firefox masquerades as Internet Exploder

[PetrolTed]

Fix being uploaded now

[Tripps]

Pigeon said:

maybe it's not trivial to deduce the required version info? - apparently you can get around it by changing the user agent string so Firefox masquerades as Internet Exploder

Deducing browser details is basically a big look-up table, not pleasent or fun to do, the reason I keep most of my companies appliacations windows, rather than browser-based...

Firefox sounds interesting though, haven't come across it yet, must investigate...

[wendyg]

I have no clue what you're talking about, but I find it very annoying when posts are displayed much wider than my screen, so I have to scroll left and right just to read it.

Can I do anything about it, other than get a much bigger monitor ?...... (kidding!)

[Tripps]

wendyg said:

I have no clue what you're talking about, but I find it very annoying when posts are displayed much wider than my screen, so I have to scroll left and right just to read it. Can I do anything about it, other than get a much bigger monitor ?...... (kidding!)

Its generally a brower issue, often caused by a wide image or text that cannot be wrapped I'm afraid.

A nice wide screens helps though