Free Republic Update: Page Too Wide/Scroll Bars

[John Robinson]

I fixed the page-too-wide/horizontal-scrollbar problem many were experiencing. This typically happened when either a long URL or string of characters found its way into the article summary, or when somebody posted a very wide image and you're viewing pings or comments using the brevity setting of "Text" (so that you see the comment text.) I'm embarrassed to admit the fix was a lot simpler than I expected, just a few crucial CSS statements seem to have corrected the issue.

In other news, there haven't been many updates the past few weeks. I'm working on the innards of the beast, rewriting the core database handling routines. About 120 hours into this current project with no end in sight. Heh. The code we're using now is good, but not as flexible as I need it to be for future projects. On the plus side, the new database code will probably find itself open-sourced. Any Perl hackers out there?

[ovrtaxt]

IBTZ!!!!

[Clive]

Please consider adding another field as a sub title field, possibly with the same number of characters as the "Title of Thread" field.

Then require that the title be quoted verbatim as in the source article but allow the poster to use the second field to either quote the source's sub title or to insert the poster's own sub title.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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[8mmMauser]

I am truly grateful for the new fixes. I could almost think you were thinking of my daily posting. Too often in the flurry of posting, I would overlook a ping. It had been a chore to keep track of the many pings and posts each morning and now, suddenly, it is all neat and tidy with the color coding! Just thanks!

8mm

[Clara Lou]

This is one fix I really appreciate. Thanks!

[Kakaze]

Great Idea Clive!

[2ndDivisionVet]

John:

How do I adjust it so that I can see the first paragraph in the threads in articles again?

[Rudder]

Good fix...goood fix.

[gridlock]

Is there a [MESSAGES] button somewhere, that I am missing. I still like to see which thread is getting the most posting by seeing it repeated on the page.

Yeah, I’m a dinosaur...

[Coldwater Creek]

Please return the ‘top of the page’ feature.

Thanks for this site and all that you do.

[deuteronlmy232]

I fixed the page-too-wide/horizontal-scrollbar problem many were experiencing.

Thanks, I thought your name was Jim, but since you sign it as John, I will say, Thanks JOHN.

[LurkingSince'98]

I often read FR on my Palm Pilot, what a blessing.

Thanks
Lurking’

[kitkat]

Oh, THANKS, John.

[Miss Didi]

Here’s another question, John...after reading a thread and hitting Back, the page refreshes and then you must scroll down to find your place. I don’t remember it being like that before...is it my computer or something I can do?

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

Thank you for the fix. It was an irritation.

[jellybean]

Under the tabs: {Articles | Activity | Comments| You can choose either Headers or Text.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Thanks! I must’ve changed it at some point, by mistake.

[From The Deer Stand]

One confusing thing.... Free Republic on my laptop shows Pacific time on the posts but on my desktop computer shows Central time. My laptop correctly shows Central time in the lower right corner of the screen. Can I change the time zone within the FR site?

[jellybean]

Thanks, I thought your name was Jim, but since you sign it as John, I will say, Thanks JOHN.

Jim is the founder/owner of FR. John is his sadistic son who likes to torture us by playing around with the code and making major changes every few years. :)

Just kidding, John. You do a great job keeping everything up and running smoothly. We don't say thank you enough for the work you do!