Carolinaflower8, I'll try later today to replicate your problem on your iPad with Safari. Obviously, it should not be cutting off any more, and this is the first report we've had that text is still cutting off in any browsers. I may be in contact with you through dmail for clarification.
Well, I guess I may be an oddball too!
Terry, as I've been looking through Plant Files today, I too have found right hand text to be cut off….
For example…
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/60033/
forgot to add…Mac/Safari
This message was edited Aug 14, 2013 2:34 PM
Hmmm..strike two for Safari. It's probably going to be late this evening before I can test both of those (when I have access to both a Mac and iPad :-).
I think we are going to need to re-look at the PF comments area as it may be suffering from some of the same problems that the forums were before we eased up a little on the text area. Same song, second verse and all that.
Terry, I was just in the Plant ID forum and noticed a member's User Name that needed two rows (wrapped around?) because it was too long for the left side text box.
I can't say if it's common in all the forums or if it's possibly only with certain browsers (although, surprisingly, I've had very few issues throughout all the changes, even with my ancient IE8). It might even be by design, but just in case I'm including both a Screen Shot and the link.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1329311/
By-the-way, my apologies to Chauncy_Gardner for using your name in my example, but so far it's the only one I've seen this with.
This message was edited Aug 15, 2013 10:03 AM
Thanks - yes, we made that column narrower and set the text to wrap, so extra-long usernames will wrap.
Thanks, Terry!!
I had a feeling that might be the case, but it never hurts to check :-)
Rather have that than running over but I think it looks funny :)
Maybe some people may rename themselves-?
Somehow I got lucky. I think if my name had one more letter I'd wrap. ☺
I just noticed also have the issue of cut off text in Plantfiles, using IPad mini.
nutsaboutnature, the "ure" in your name wraps around on my computer.
Boy, what a way to "burst my bubble", Jo! And here I was patting myself on the back for picking my name the "perfect" length.
The text size seems to be what makes the names wrap, for some reason the text size in the member name is noticeably more affected by it than the message area. If my text size is set to medium I do not get the wrapping of nutsaboutnature, and it does not seem to affect the size of the text in the message box much at all. The strange thing is that at some of the other sites the text size makes a lot of difference in text boxes like the one I am typing this message in, but here it does not.
Here's something curious.
At 100% on my new computer screen, the last "e" in Nutsaboutnature's name wraps to the next line.
At 150% on my new computer screen, the whole name appears perfectly...
Oh well...I do still like my name even if technology doesn't. ^_^
I notice the same thing -- at smaller screen zoom the wrap occurs, but more zoomed in, even at some extreme magnifications, no wrap.
That is odd, and it's not something I can readily explain but we'll continue to look at it and try to figure out why it's doing that.
Does it happen with other things Terry? I suppose it might affect others. Otherwise I would say why bother.
Wraps for me no matter the zoom in large text, if I set it at medium it stays normal.
There was some question about how things look on Safari (a few posts up), so I checked it on my Mac laptop. I don't usually use Safari, so I was just curious. Anyhow, looks fine to me. Margins are the same as on my Firefox browser. I didn't change any Safari settings. Just default settings. This is Safari 5.1.9. Below is a screenshot. I didn't have the browser expanded to the screen size when the pic was taken, so that's why the beige color on the sides is narrower.
Hope this helps with that question. I don't have an iPad, so I can't check that.
The problem I was, and still am having, on Mac/Safari, was strictly on Plant Files, not other forums.
This message was edited Aug 16, 2013 3:46 PM
Oops. sorry, Tim,
I'll go try that now.
Me too, just Plantfiles, , iPad mini. Everything else is perfect, love it.
OK, mine is clipping a tiny bit off the right side, too, in Safari. Looks like it is clipping about 2.5 letters off the page on the right. It doesn't adversely effect the top part of the page, so far as I can tell, but it does clip a few letters off of the comments section (Gardener's Notes).
The 1st pic below is Safari (5.1.9) showing the top part of the screen for the 1st Item under African Violets. The 2nd pic, also Safari, shows the mid section of that same page, the top that looks ok and the bottom or Gardener's Notes where the words are cut off. For comparison, the 3rd pic shows the same page in Firefox. Note the 2nd line of the 1st entry comment under Gardener's Notes. On the Safari pic the line ends with "hous". Half of the 's' is missing along with "e!".
Sorry, guys. Next time I'll try to read the problem statement more carefully before posting.
You know what is really crazy about how Safari handles that page in PlantFiles - and I bring this up in case it may prove helpful in troubleshooting the problem - the browser is handling the Gardener's Notes section of the page differently from the way it is handling either the top portion or the bottom portion, the Regional section, of that same page. Check out the pics below.
The 1st pic shows the Regional section of the same page in Safari. The 2nd pic shows the same thing in Firefox. On the right side of the Gardener's Notes section, Safari cut off roughly 2.5 letters plus the closing line of the box, but surprisingly enough did NOT cut off the right edge of the box for either the Regional section (shown in pics below) or the Profile box (refer to pics in my last message to see this) on the very same page - even though those right box edges are supposed to line up for all sections, and on the Firefox page both the Profile box and the Regional box, the two boxes Safari did not clip, actually extend slightly farther to the right than the Gardener's Notes page which Safari did clip..
But I guess that might be a bit farther than we need to take it for this thread. Sorry, I'm a developer. It's in my blood. :-)
On the iPad, there are no options. You get what you get. Since the whole point of the great upheaval this of update is to incorporate mobile devices, I assume this is a significant, though relatively small, glitch, and will be corrected once reported. Which is why I did.
I love DG, have greater problems on some other sites, greatly appreciate the accessibility and great forebearance of Terry and all the admins.
Oh, Pfg,
I didn't mean to imply the problem was insignificant! Not at all. I hope it didn't come across that way. I was just characterizing the problem. It's an engineer/developer thing. Probably TMI, but like I said before, I can't help myself.
Anyhow, it's chopping off 2.5 chars on my screen, but I really only mentioned that as a way to express the size of the area being clipped for troubleshooting purposes. On another type screen or if someone has their font or zoom set larger, it could be more chars. And even on my screen where it is 2.5 chars, it still makes the paragraph practically impossible to read. Until you compare it with the correct page as shown in another browser, you really have no idea how much text is missing, and that makes it impossible to interpret. So, yes, it definitely needs to be fixed.
Earlier, when I posted the 1st Safari pic which looked fine (not PlantFiles), even then I was only trying to help - not trying to say the problem was insignificant. At the time, I thought there was only 1 person having the iPad/Safari problem. I think it was your post I read to that extent. I checked my Safari to let you know if it was the site or possibly something relating to your settings. Of course, that time I got it wrong, since I didn't know to check a Plant Files page. Just trying to help, and, yes, I think they will probably need to fix that problem. Hopefully, it will be a small change for the developers, but it is not a small problem for the reader.
Don't worry, I wasn't upset or criticizing you, just wanted to keep the facts straight.
A developer, eh? Clever you, I don't understand any of it!
Soooo much going on, so many people discombobulated and confused... I do understand why, most of the terminology is over our heads, but it is still trying to read all the bad-tempered complaints...
Great word, Pam, "trying." Perfect word, and used too infrequently these days.
Terry, this is new to me. When I go to preview my post - DG goes to the list of forums. This has happened several times in the last couple of days. Of course it didn't happen with this post.
Elsie, that's odd - if you click your browser's back button, does it take you back to your post?
Yes it did.
And when you hit preview a second time, did it work properly?
Terry, on the same post I didn't try it again.
Still seem to be having the same problem on Plant, Bird, And Bug Files…Right side is cut off.
Any update?
Oh yeah, using Mac/Safari
Tim (and others with Apple/Mac/Safari woes), I haven't been able to reproduce the problem, but a couple of ideas/suggestions:
1. Is your operating system completely updated? If not, it might be a good time to update.
2. Can you reset Safari? (I'd tell you how, but I don't use a Mac frequently enough to be much help. A quick Google search will probably reveal step-by-steps.)
3. Does the problem persist if you switch to a different browser, such as Firefox? (That will help us know if the problem is with Safari or the Mac.
#1…Yes, updated
#2… Resetting would wipe out too many things that I wouldn't want to wipe out. Is there something in particular that would need to be reset?
#3…I've never used a different browser
You might try a different browser, especially if you don't want to reset. You might try clearing just the history and see what happens. You'll have to re-login here an other places you are logged in, but nowadays logins are fairly easy.
ok. :-|
