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I was "dang near blind" when I was 7 years old, and during the last 47 years my situtaion has not improved. As a result, I have found that setting the Tools|Internet Options|Accessibility setting to "Ignore font sizes specified" and "Ignore font styles specified" to "Checked" in IE6 has been useful (along with changing the font to Arial) for *most* websites.
With these settings, most of the websites I visit "re-wrap" text to fit my browser window nicely, but CodeProject doesn't. As a result, when I use the "cntrl scroll wheel" on my mouse, I either have to accept a "too small" font size which includes the left-hand "frame" in my browser window, or a "too large" font size which requires me to scroll left and right in order to see the line of text I'm trying to read.
What I'd like to do...
1) View all text and graphics related to the article I'm reading at a font size of 12 or 14 points (without scrolling left and right).
2) See the left-hand frame (for bookmarks, etc.) by scrolling left.
Some (potentially useful) info:
Screen resolution 1024*768 (have good graphics card, so can go higher, but typically makes all fonts "thinner" and tougher to read).
Browser: IE6.X (most recent non-beta release).
OS: WinXP Home
Does someone here have a set of viewing parameters that will optimize my "CodeProject Experience"?
Thanks,
Dale
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The problem is because we use absolute instead of relative fonts. I'm in the process of redoing all of this (only 6 years too late) but increasing font size and ensuring layout remains decent can often be mutually exclusive. But I know reading messed up layout is better than not being able to read nicely laid out text.
At the risk of a total cop-out can I suggest a much, much nicer solution: IE7. IE7 has a zoom function that doesn't increase font size but instead magnifies everything: text, graphics, form elements - the lot. IMO a much nicer solution than simply increasing font size. In any case you may want to check it out
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: At the risk of a total cop-out can I suggest a much, much nicer solution: IE7. IE7 has a zoom function that doesn't increase font size but instead magnifies everything: text, graphics, form elements - the lot. IMO a much nicer solution than simply increasing font size. In any case you may want to check it out
Opera's had this functionality for years. WIth very few exceptions it manages to zoom without inducing horizontal scrolling, or fubaring the layout.
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Was FF 1.Xs zoom as capable? I remember it being alot flakier but that might just've been CPs old design not zooming as well.
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Thanks for all your suggestions! I just downloaded FF 1.0.5.1 (I had previously installed 1.0.0.7, but it "broke" somehow so I had stopped using it). It completely solves my original problem (text enlarges *and* reflows )
Now for a (rhetorical) question...Why isn't there a context menu (right-click)choice of "Send To..." *for a URL* that accesses the appropriate shortcut to whichever browser you choose? If that option was available, it wouldn't be such a PITA to use a "non-system-default" browser for those times when I know FF is better than IE.
The concept works great for *files*...I don't always want to open a ".cs" file in Visual Studio, so I stick shortcuts to NotePad, WordPad, a Hex Editor, and a lightweight programmer's editor in the "Send To" subdirectory...sweet!
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I like very much of indentation of messages in threads of CP Forum. I wish what has too "TreeView" plus and minus like controls in order to hide/show messages or replies. Actually, when we click in message title, displays the message text (it's nice). I think what before the message title, appears too the minus/plus buttons to hide/show the replies.
Other cool feature is show in the end of title the first level replies count. My idea will be like this:
+ Treeview-like message threads (3)
The plus signal in the left to collapse the replies and the (3) in the right to show the replies count
Regards
Jesus is Love! Tell to someone!
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I'm using Internet Explorer 7 beta 3. I'm always sign in, then I have tried sign out in order to register my friend and I can't!
Then I changed to Firefox 1.5.0.4, and I can sign out, but the link to Join, where is??? I'm blind or this link disappeared. In order, appear:
Email[textbox] Password[textbox] Remember me? Lost your password?
How I do to register now???
Jesus is Love! Tell to someone!
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Solution:
1. Go to main page
2. Find big orange link that says "Join Codeproject" (center, near the top)
3. Click link
4. Fill out form
5. Enjoy CP membership
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When i m not sign in & find some forum for which i can answer then boton links display [sign in] for [reply].
& after sign in i m not back to that forum but start with home page.
so after sign in plz redirect to page where user come from.
regards,
Divyang Mithaiwala
System Engineer & Software Developer
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Press back button and refresh (i know it sucks and every other site brings you back to the original page)
I dislike feeling at home when i am abroad.
To all the virgins in the world thanks for Nothing.
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Thanks for changing the highlight color on the green navigation bar!
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Thanks for changing the highlight color on the green navigation bar!
Yes, it is much better
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The formatting buttons in the post editor appear to be noop'd, at least in IE.
/ravi
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oopsie! :->
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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1. The forums in the menu should really be in alphabetical listing. It would make things a lot easier.
2. When modifying a message, it would be nice if the message and signature were reseparated. In case HTML tags were being used in one, but not the other. You'll probably need a sig tag to parse. Good job on hiding the MODIFIED text in the subject so that we can't remove it. And also for deleting the timestamps associated with the. Much obliged. It was CPhog all along. It's dead now and works the old way.
"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them." - Anonymous
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: This way, mixing up of strings in the number and causing 'Type Mismatch' errors can be minimised right.
If people want to go to a specific forum directly, they can always bookmark it, can't they?
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True. But even for visits to forums that are less frequent, this would make a technical advantage. The next level, we can make it more extensible and user-friendly, in terms of Smart Error messages like /aspnet20. Is'nt it?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: This would increase the user responsiveness of the page and lighten the load to the server.
Yeah, it rocks. I've been using it for a year or so now.
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In case you're confused about Shog's reply try FF, GM & CPHog
As of how to accomplish this I wouldn't have a clue at the moment and I'm too lazy to google it
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On the homepage, there is a combo box, with "Got Programming question" as the first element, and then in the list, Soapbox is one of the item.
After soapbox is selected and if we try to post a message, there is a bold red line at the top. "Please do NOT post programming questions or ads to this forum."
This flow does not seem to be correct.
-Prakash
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Wont is be comfortable if the orginal message is displayed while we "modify" our reply?. Sometimes If we want to quote a line from the original message while modifiying, we need to open a separate page to read it again and copy the text to be quoted from that page. So my suggestion is simple. For "modify", why not we have the same options as we have for a "reply". 1.which displays the original message, 2. Which has "quote selected text" option.
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I dont know why the hell the script for voting 5 is disabled only for me??
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