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Border weirdness...

Mar 12, 2005 3:40AM PST

Appreciate if someone running Firefox could checkout this page in my website.
http://users.rcn.com/chuck44/laketemp/bird.html

It uses the Lake applet, so don't be alarmed if you get any warnings, depending on how your security is set up.

My problem is that it looks fine in IE, and FF on my computer. After uploading the file to my website, I get a weird display when using FF, kind of like the border is repeating or something. IE shows it fine.
A picture of my views can be seen here.
http://users.rcn.com/chuck44/imagetem/problem.jpg (75K)
Thanks for any opinions.

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Yes I get a similar problem in FF
Mar 12, 2005 8:34PM PST

which is a shame, because it's a nice effect.

It's not the same problem as you described. On my Firefox I get an open border on the right, (the image overlaps the border), but if I maximise the browser window, the full rectangular border appears, but the image only 3/4 fills the border. I can resize the browser window to make the border and image match.

In IE, if the browser window is not large enough, the image "and" border scroll off to the right, but then matches if I resize. But any larger and the image doesn't fill the border window.

Your coding used is this;

<style type="text/css"><!--
body {margin: 130px 157px; background: #000000}
div {border: 30px ridge #cc9900;}
--></style>

<param name=href value="selector.html">



So I reckon there is either an error in the css-style settings, (eg border set to 30 pixels which doesn't allow for resizing), or there may be a similar "fixed width" setting in the "selector,html", which I can't check.

Have you tried this web page at a screen resolution of 800 by 600 or lower? The trouble is, because all people have different monitor sizes and screen resolutions, some will use maximised browsers on lower settings, and some non-maximised on higher settings, so it will be difficult for you to set this at a universally good size.

But try changing some of the parameters of the table width, say to %ages, and not absolute sizes.

Good luck,

Mark

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Thanks for the analysis
Mar 13, 2005 4:37AM PST

Frustrating! tried changing parameters to percentages, and works better when resizing in IE, but in FF, border resizes, but image doesn't (since the lake applet seems to only work with fixed width and height). I think this applet is best used with smaller pictures.

The link I gave was for only the image with Lake effect, so the "selector" didn't come into play. Just fyi, the selector is just a menu, but uses a javascript to open the applet in a full screen display, without the extra toolbars and such.
Selector
Again, thanks for the advice.

Whoa, breaking news! Discovered why I'm getting the weird border repeating.
I'm using the "adblock" extension with FF. When I disable it, my border looks ok. Ain't "debugging" fun!?

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Well done Radean
Mar 13, 2005 8:01PM PST

I'm glad you got it sorted, although why the adblock extension in FF should cause the problem I don't know.

I really do like those ripple effect images. They're neat.

Mark