Getting time for a change...

[Brian Ellis]

OK, full screen cap attached. You will see that the posts do take up a sizeable part of the screen, as well as the fonts.

Had to hunt to find MSIE as I've removed all shortcuts to it! It looks indeed very much the same, same sizes. I was pretty sure the FF1 was set to default, but there was a small chance that I had changed something, but I'm 100% sure I've not changed anything in MSIE, as I never use it.

I cannot think I've changed anything in Win that would affect it, either.

I note that the font you had for the poster's name has now been reduced to a normal size and those for the description, location etc. are not exaggerated, pretty much the same size as for the old version, as I remember it.

The text font is Verdana, which is the first choice in the HTML.

What I don't understand is why everything was OK in the old version but suddenly the body text in the messages and the index has doubled in size.

Sorry if this has been a long time coming, but we had a rare power cut today and my UPS would not hold out long enough to send this out until now.

[VJ]

Brian: Interesting... If it is the same on IE, the problem must be elsewhere...
When you view these forums: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/ , do you have the same font-problem?

Sasq: Could it be something in the stylesheets, that is causing some font substitution? The font in Brian's screenshot looks bold as well...


Jörg

[RichL]

muahahaha done.

Damn, and I was just getting used to the bell on a staff and having to shout 'Unclean!' every time I browsed the forums...

[Jessterw]

Found two end tags that were never opened in the page templates; could have been throwing off the text sizes (style cascading). The styles also make use of points (instead of pixels or other screen measurement) for font sizes, which in itself isn't always reliable, but I'd rather not mess with those right now (fix the problems we have first).

Hopefully the removal of those misplaced tags fixes the problem and doesn't create any others. Everything displays fine here in FF 1.0/Mac.

[Brian Ellis]

OK, same aspect in the link!

An idea:

textarea, .bginput
{
font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.button
{
font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
select
{
font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
option, optgroup
{
font-size: 11px;
font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.smallfont
{
font: 10px verdana,arial,helvetica;
}

The text area font is dimensioned in pt, all the others in px ????

It is not bold; Verdana is a fairly big, black font. Comparison in Word shows it a tad less than 12 point Verdana at 1:1 scale.

It happens only in this new vB version. I regularly visit other forums in look-alikes, such as UBB and phpBB and these all display normally (and haven't changed).

Hope this helps.

[Fat Tone]

I leave the country for 5 minutes and it's like coming home to find someone has broken in and rearranged all the furniture

[Jessterw]

Text area is the input field, so it's not what's affecting the size of text in the post itself. The text size in the post should be 10pt verdana (which is what the td - table cell - is set to).

Edit: Altered some font sizes - most everything should be set in pixels now. Post text size is now 12px, which is close to what it was before (had some complaints about the small 11px size).

[KvHagedorn]

OK, full screen cap attached. You will see that the posts do take up a sizeable part of the screen, as well as the fonts.

Had to hunt to find MSIE as I've removed all shortcuts to it! It looks indeed very much the same, same sizes. I was pretty sure the FF1 was set to default, but there was a small chance that I had changed something, but I'm 100% sure I've not changed anything in MSIE, as I never use it.

I cannot think I've changed anything in Win that would affect it, either.

I note that the font you had for the poster's name has now been reduced to a normal size and those for the description, location etc. are not exaggerated, pretty much the same size as for the old version, as I remember it.

The text font is Verdana, which is the first choice in the HTML.

What I don't understand is why everything was OK in the old version but suddenly the body text in the messages and the index has doubled in size.

Sorry if this has been a long time coming, but we had a rare power cut today and my UPS would not hold out long enough to send this out until now.

That was disorienting to look at.. I'm used to having posts in order by first post on top, not the other way round.. maybe all those years in Asia make that more comfortable for you..

[Brian Ellis]

OK, that's beginning to look fine, now. Thanks for what you have done!!!

[Jessterw]

No problem.

[RichL]

... I'd prefer the 'New Posts' indicator when viewing the top level of the forums to be a slightly bolder colour blue. The pastel blue/violet is a little indistinct compared to the 'No New Posts' one.

Either my contact lenses are distorting this morning, or the New Posts indicator has been emboldened

Thanks guys!

[Sasq]

It's been emboldened, which reminds me, I think I shall play with your user title.

[Brian R.]

Just a thought - It is somewhat distracting and annoying to have the balloons popping up when your mouse pointer is setting on the topic screen, and changing when you accidentally move the mouse a small amount. I would vote for getting rid of the baloons.

[Fat Tone]

I vote for keeping them!

[Sasq]

There is a hack for making that a user selectable item.
Shall play more later....

see my aaaarrrrrrgggggggh thread from a bit back, and understand I am busy yet again this weekend.