Minor:

• Removed Internet Explorer relying on 'quirks mode' for the fixed headers and footers.
• Tweaked (improved?) font sizes, line height, and sub/superscript layout.
• Changed the fixed footer and header scrolling mechanisms (via CSS) to a better format.
• Changed rounded corners to non-javascript reliant versions with CSS3, and added more to the site due to the ease.  Older (non CSS3 aware) browsers will lose the rounded corners.
  
  • As a result; Column alignment in tables (mostly not working before) is now definitely broken (browsers don't support it anymore).  Don't use <alignment> in tables to align columns anymore, align the cells instead.
• Added the ability to link to specific messages, though the fact they can move to different pages (due to the fact RPoL paginates from the most recent post, not the first) can make it unreliable.
• Stopped the GM menu showing everyone as having no portraits when editing characters.
• Fixed circumstances where "Delete rMail" wouldn't work for system generated messages.
• Fixed some incorrect HTML.
• Fixed the message number reference for replies being out by one (in private threads).
• Fixed W-P not showing genre and system for the top thread on some (most) pages, as well as notices being incorrectly positioned in searches.
• Truncated long game systems in W-P for better layout.  Hovering over shows the full system.
• Fixed inconsistent and incorrect tag display issues for NPCs.
• Stopped the autosuggest game system searches selecting a system comment if the user accidentally hovers over the comment and then presses enter.  Also disabled the ability for users to click on the comment.
• Increased the die roller log from 50 (I thought it was 100!) to 200.
• Added a link to character posts (for GMs and the player) to see the dice roller log, highlighting the rolls ±1 hour of the message.
• Fixed where the GM "One Stop" player management page wouldn't let you rename a character.
• Fixed a problem where once-per-day email notifications were not being sent.
• Increased number of threads per page from 22 to 25, due to larger screen sizes and/or faster Internet speeds.  A small increment, but we'll monitor the impact and feedback.
• Stopped the "multiple recipients" window locking up Chrome due to a closed dialogue box.
• Unofficial lurkers (those not added to games as a lurker) now only get new message alerts if they can see the group.
• Stopped moderators being added to the recipient list of a (single) rMail every time it was reported (they now are only added the first time).
• Stopped the "Please do not try to imitate system messages" check being quite so aggressive.

Can't access any diecrollers at the moment :)

The fixed headers broke (Chrome 19.0.1084.56, Win7).

Edit: I am also having the errors with dicerollers.
This message was last edited by the user at 01:37, Thu 14 June 2012.

Specifically, the error message is:

Can't locate Math/Random/MT/Auto.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /data/rpol/webdocs/usermodules/diceroller.cgi line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /data/rpol/webdocs/usermodules/diceroller.cgi line 14.
For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

Oops, forgot I was testing an alternate random number generator (which didn't help the Ent analysis of the results at all).  Should be all better!

It works again.  Thanks for the quick fix!

Probably a caching issue, which can be fixed with a refresh.

I've renamed one of the CSS files in the hope that will assist (and avoid people having to force-refresh the site).
This message was last edited by the user at 01:51, Thu 14 June 2012.

The page bottom Menu Bar (Main Menu|Game Menu|Private Messages|Jump etc.) has moved upward on all my screens to various spots in center.  On this thread it is superimposed over Jase's last sentence of Post #1

Ah. Now it is working.

The header is not longer on top for me (firefox 13 on OS X.7.4) by about an inch.

Would that be linked to the header/footer scrolling changes?

In reply to lanceur (msg # 10):

Untoutably.  Hold down the Apple (Command) key and click the refresh button, see if that helps.

That's one of the browser and OS combinations I've been unable to test, so unsure if it'll help.

I've noticed in the composition screen the "compose" button is floating out in nowhere land. It's aligned left/right where it's supposed to be, but it's underneath the text box, pushing the last 5 threads further down the page.

I'm using FireFox 13.0 with Windows Vista.

Also, I don't know if this is something I will get used to, or if it's just because I've been looking at D&D books all day, but I find the new font harder to read.

I'm getting the Compose button problem, but it moves to its correct spot when you click on it.

Character sheets have shrunk down to a very small font-size, making them hard to read.

(I'm using Firefox 13.0 as well.)

The compose tab is being strange like so, but it's always been odd for me.

In some of my gams it was INSIDE the text entry box, and in others, to its right... now it's way down below like so, even in this thread

http://i47.tinypic.com/2uokr3s.jpg

Firefox 13, Windows 7

I have noticed that when using "tt" tag, the text is hard to read. Smaller font. I'm using Chrome.

I can confirm the <tt> bug for Chrome - text using that formatting is much smaller than the rest of the site.

I'm not sure it's a bug (the update mentioned font tweaks), but I can confirm it's also really small in FireFox. To the point that I almost can't read it.

I also just found a second issue while trying to confirm the first one: as a GM, when I'm on the Character Information screen, when I hover my mouse over the "view" button it moves from the side of the box to underneath the box, away from my mouse cursor. No matter what I do I can't click on it.

<edit>I think what is happening is that the button gets ever-so-slightly bigger, just enough that there's not enough room on the page and it wraps to the next line. This would be ok, but when I move the mouse to click on where it is, I'm no longer hovering, the button goes back to normal, and moves back to where my mouse used to be.
This message was last edited by the user at 02:43, Thu 14 June 2012.

Add another annoyance for Chrome, and two for FireFox to the list.

Hopefully both issues (small tt and pre, plus out of position "Compose ±") are better now.  Might require a force-refresh.

Font size definitely looks better now on Chrome.

Yep, the character sheets (probably using tt?) now look fine, thanks.

Need browser version and OS, thanks.

I've had some issues posting since the new build is in. The following issues were experienced in the Windows 7 operating environment, originally presenting in the Chrome browser though subsequently repeating themselves while using Internet Explorer.

1. Double Post, both posts having the same message number (where usually the message numbers are different).

2. Attempts to delete the latter post result in the following:

Sorry, but an error has occurred in deleting the message.
While trying to delete your message (number 118) the search for your message went astray and we didn't seek past 118

3. Attempts to edit the latter post result in an edit of the former post. Subsequent attempts to edit the now edited former post display the original text of the message.

In reply to Waxahachie (msg # 22):

That happens intermittently, annoyingly enough.  rMail me the details.

I'm running Safari on a Mac and the page divider for the < hr > tag doesn't seem to be appearing at all. The extra space between the lines is there it's just the line itself that seems to be missing. Gotta love troubleshooting eh Jase? =P

OK The Entirety of RPOL has gone wide-screen for me the header is a clear inch below the top of the page and the same with the footer (Well an inch upwards) Which just looks wrong. Also when i view on my mobile this inch makes it conflict with the top line from the game forums.

I''m running firefox 13.0 n indows Vista and the Mobile issue is happening on Blackberry's browser which i don;t know the name of.

Edit: this problem only seems to occur with the Fixed header turned off. when it is on there is no issue. But i always prefer it off.
This message was last edited by the user at 05:19, Thu 14 June 2012.

Visceri22 - Have you also done a force refresh?  If it still happens, do you have another browser?  I'd be interested to know where Safari has issues on a page such as http://www.wickham43.net/horizontalrule.html.


PushBarToOpen - Fixed footer and header?  And have you done a force refresh (control F5).  Also, are you zooming or increasing the font size?

On the mobile are you using m.rpol.net?

Forced refresh fixed it thanks.

The page count at the bottom of games isn't displaying properly for me.

On the first page, it claims there are but two pages.  On page two, it acknowledges the existence of page three, and on page three, it acknowledges pages 1-4, and so one and so forth.  Really freaked me out when I clicked on a game that I knew had four pages before the update and it claimed there were only the first two.

I checked multiple games, so it isn't just one.  Did that to see if it was repeatable before reporting it here.

Firefox 13.0, Max OSX 10.7.4

And the same thing with the page count also happens in Firefox 12 and Windows 7.

In reply to jase (msg # 26):

So I forced refresh and nothing happened, still having the problem though when I tried it on Rockmelt (a chrome spinoff) it showed up normally.

When looking through the page you linked, all of those borders showed up properly.

I think that the page number issue is a general one as I have it too. On IE Firefox and my mobile.

Also where us the dice roller highlight link located as I can't find it is it only for posts that you make as a player or is it for other peoples posts as well?
This message was last edited by the user at 07:12, Thu 14 June 2012.

The link should be in the left hand column, in the line of links below the character portrait.

Talking of which, jase, would it be possible to change the alignment of that row of links, so that they don't stretch the column width out so much?

Right they just don't appear for me when using IE 8 At all although there is a space where i think they should go as the alignement of theose buttons appears off

Visceri22 - Try a different theme (preferably one you haven't used before) and let me know.

PushBarToOpen - They only appear if you're the owner of the character or GM.  Let me know if they're missing in that's true.

That did it. Soon as I did it they appeared again and they show up now that I've gone back to my old theme. Thanks for the help!

*rolls eyes at Safari*  (c;

Just glad it's fixed!  Boy do I love the number of browsers available...



They should be right aligned underneath the rest of the post information, just like always (except with the extra link now), so not sure what you mean about the alignment.

I have to reduce my window size to around 920 pixels wide before the links start to affect the width of the column (and the site's designed for 1024 (or greater)).

Don't hate on Safari. Hate on macs catering to Safari. Inb4 flame war on PCs vs. Macs...Just saying I own both and I like em equally for different reasons XD. But anyways, yeah it's fixed. Another player in a game I play in is saying that language groups that are posted by other players which they are not privy to are not showing any garbled text at all, just a blank dialogue box where those who know the language can see the text fine. I don't know what browser she's running it on or anything though. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention. I'll tell her to force refresh and see if it fixes it.

In reply to jase (msg # 36):

Well, the alignment has been bugging me (slightly) for a while, but I actually remembered to ask about it today.  :)

At the moment the column looks a bit like this:

Character Name
 player, 391 posts
 Awesome impressive bio line
 to really make you think.
Wed 13 Jun 2012
at 18:29
                         [picture]
                         PM | rMail | Profile | Info | Rolls

I was just wondering if it might be better like this:

Character Name
 player, 391 posts
 Awesome impressive bio line
 to really make you think.
Wed 13 Jun 2012
at 18:29
                         [picture]
PM | rMail | Profile | Info | Rolls

Or maybe even like this:

Character Name
 player, 391 posts
 Awesome impressive bio line
 to really make you think.
Wed 13 Jun 2012
at 18:29
PM | rMail | Profile | Info | Rolls
                         [picture]
This message was last edited by the user at 12:27, Thu 14 June 2012.

I'm using Firefox 13.0 with Windows Vista (in case it's relevant, I'm running at 1440x900 resolution). I've also noticed that the "Preview" and "Post Message" buttons seem to get bigger when I hover them, but they don't move to another line (they just shift the rest of the page down a couple of pixels).

The "compose" button seems to be back where it's supposed to be, so thanks for that!

<edit>More info: I've found that I have this problem in a game where the longest character name is "Francis 'Frank' Decourcey", but not in the one where the longest name is "Arthur Drake"
This message was last edited by the user at 13:06, Thu 14 June 2012.

Okay, it'll be just one user's opinion, but the new font is hard on my eyes. I think it actually made a vein pop in my eyeball :((

Using Win Vista Ultimate SP2/IE 9.0.8 here.  Really digging the new font layouts.  Don't like all the icons and +/- boxes having moved... would love to shove them to the right and out of the way again.

• Problem posts can force the screen wide -- see message 4, this thread.  When that happens, I have a vertical scrollbar in both the browser and the web page, but no horizontal scroll bar in either, so a lot of the text is hidden/inaccessable.  http://arcadia.net/Cruinne/RPoL/images/rpolscroll.png
  
  • Update to add: if I disable fixed headers/footers (that is, Disable fixed header: ON), I can get an in-page horizontal scroll bar, if I scroll all the way to the end of the page, but it's not very useful since it's not actually available while I'm reading anything but the last post or two.
  • This happens too in certain moderator pages  so I can't view the right-hand side of those.
  
  
• Focus after load has been lost.  Example, when the Main Menu is loaded, the focus is not in the area between the header and footer and when a thread loads it is not in the area of the post.  This means spacebar/page-up/page-down/home/end/arrow keys no longer work for navigation once a page loads, and you must click on the scrollbar to navigate.
  
  • This is true even with fixed headers disabled -- cannot navigate the page using the keyboard (or my mouse buttons mapped to page-up/page-down).

This message was last edited by the user at 15:59, Thu 14 June 2012.

Is there a reason I can't just push 'page down' and my page scrolls down any more? Before I could just click on the page and navigate with keyboard, but now I have to click on the scroll bar.

In reply to katisara (msg # 42):

I'm just glad someone besides me navigates with keyboard ;-)

Yay, the page count issue is fixed!  Thanks, jase.

Also, cruinne, I love using the keyboard to navigate as well.  So handy.

I use the keyboard for most of my internet usage as well, in fact I have gotten to the point of scowling at others as they use a mouse, to me it is slower.

and I just had to add, unaware if it was said already, I enjoy the removal of the social site links.  Thank you for that.

In reply to cruinne (msg # 41):

Still getting used to the font myself.  Apparently it's better for reading...

What icons and ± boxes have moved?  None should have.

Horizontal scrolling - I get a scrollbar at the appropriate time on the same version of IE9 (though on Win 7).

Focus should always been on the scrollable area now (whereas previously I had to use some javascript trickery to focus on the area).  Page down, etc, should always work, I use it a lot.

All those problems sound a bit weird, possibly one of the CCS files hasn't been refreshed..?

jase, I don't know if you did anything, but I did a force refresh and the moving button problem is now fixed. Yay!

I renamed a few more CSS files so that they old ones couldn't be used from cache anymore, that might have been what fixed it.

I don't know if it's by design or not, but the Preview and Post Message buttons (and similar buttons), kind of 'enlarge' when I mouse over them... it wouldn't bother me if it didn't slightly widen the box between my text entry and the formatting commands, and generally make the bottom half of my screen jumpy when going to click on them. I'd lov eit if we could get our old buttons back.. I like the rounded ones, to be sure, but I don't like their little dynamic resizing...

That's the EXACT problem I just had, that is fixed. Try forcing a refresh (likely CTRL+F5, but it varies). I noticed on the "character details" screen there's an extra horizontal line in the new version, so you can instantly tell if it works.

And thanks again, jase!
This message was last edited by the user at 05:41, Fri 15 June 2012.

Yeah, fixed, thanks XD;

Navigation using the directional arrows does weird things, like down doesn't go directly down, but down and left a few spaces (say 7-8), and up doesn't work at all.

I have been having this problem too, I am working on my phone and when I am zoomed in to read and scroll with arrow keys left or right it also takes me a bit up or down; up with left, down going right. I am using an opera variant.

No change for me, still no default scroll. I use ie7 (not by choice! I do most of my browsing during lunch break at work.) I haven't had a chance yet to test with any boxes at home, but I'll report if I'm having trouble with those too.

Jase, the - icons (for remove from sticky list) as well as the "closed" and "notice" icons used to be right-aligned in the row with the thread or forum link.  Now they're left aligned, in front of the text in IE9 on Win Vista:

• http://arcadia.net/Cruinne/RPo...inmenu_lefticons.png
• http://arcadia.net/Cruinne/RPo...ummenu_lefticons.png

I don't in Vista, as in the screenshot I attached; it's still a problem today.  Clicking "all" on this thread causes it.   If it happens in rMail, I get a scrollbar.  I don't know what's different between rMail display vs. thread and moderator page displays.


It is in Win 7 IE9, but not under Windows Vista, IE9.  That's the only difference I can find between my laptop, where it works, and my desktop, where it doesn't when I use IE.  (Deep refreshing doesn't change it.)

I am beginning to think that the issue here is IE on non-Windows 7 installs.  Thank-you oh-so-much, MS!

Does it do all this over at http://beta.rpol.net?

I hate to do this to you, but yes.  I did all my testing of the beta site on my laptop, figuring Win Vista and Win 7 would not make any real difference to web page display if I was using the same version of IE on both.

Turns out, it makes a difference :-(   I'm very sorry about that.

I'm using Windows 7, 1920x1080 resolution, tried both Mozilla 8 and IE 9. Forced refreshed.

My only real concern right now is that on the Player's Wanted forum, when I zoom in (either text only or normal zoom), the Topic column that holds the game's/ad's name does not seem to expand quite like the others, and instead the letters get bigger and just start wrapping (more than expected) breaking the name into several lines. This is contrary to the other columns, which all appear to expand horizontally fine.

So, the other columns appear to expand their widths proportionately to their original un-zoomed state, while the Topic column shrinks in proportional width, kind of getting "shoved to the side."

I don't know whether it's the code or just my machine. But I would prefer if the Topic column holds more "weight" when zooming the page, so that it will expand proportionately or even more than other columns. The name is probably the most important part of that page, at least to me.

Someone please just let me know if I'm just being stupid though :p

EDIT: This happens for other pages with Topic too, but it is less noticeable to me on those, probably shorter Topic names.
This message was last edited by the user at 00:21, Sat 16 June 2012.

What was changed about the fonts? I can't see any difference...

Me neither, did our accounts fail to patch?

Only IE users will really notice a difference in the font as the change from quirks to non-quirks mode made IE change the font (well, the font didn't change, the rendering of it did) rendering to "sub-pixel positioned ClearType to render text by using DirectWrite".  Or something like that.

All browsers should see a slight increase in the line height.


c - Strange how it seems to be limited to Vista, I'm using the exact same version of IE here on Windows 7 and it's fine.  I wouldn't have thought it would make a difference either!

In reply to kouk (msg # 58):

That'll be due to the increased number of spaces, which are deemed appropriate wrapping points, in the topic text.  Not much can really be done about that one, and I would have expected it to behave the same way before the update.

I've changed the images to not only have "align='right'" but the CSS of "float: right" as well.  See how that goes.

Image placement back to normal here in Vista IE land.  Thanks, jase!

Reposting and adding info as per cruinne's instructions:



Since the recent update, the subscript and superscript buttons have been slightly off-kilter in IE9 (I know the fix: use Firefox.  I do, but at work we use IE.)

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1.  My browser is IE 9.0.8112.

I don't know if this is new with the update or an old issue, but on the mobile version of the site (since I've only just started using it), the character details, dice roller, etc. bar shifts down sometimes, so it overlaps the horizontal line which should be beneath it.

In reply to Lance H (msg # 65):

Turn off compatibility mode.  That's the teared page to the right of the address (and to the left of the refresh and cancel button).  You'll find it's blue at the moment (or whatever's appropriate for your Windows theme), click on it and it'll go to a dulled grey.


erbridge - What mobile browsers are you using, and can you see a pattern to this "sometimes"?  ta.

In reply to jase (msg # 67):

Excellent.  Thank you!

I have another glitch to report: Using the Opera browser Wanted - Players, and only that page, scrolls funny, It thinks there are 2 extra inches to the page, and wont scroll the top bar over to show main menu untill you scroll those extra inches of blank background.

Is this every page or only some (e.g. not the first page but happens on page 2 (where there's a hover over for the game system))?

Whoot jase -- turning off Compatability Mode (I hate how it sneaks in with no warning -- grrr) totally fixed the keyboard-navigation issues I was having.  Thank you!

[Note: Checking WP on Opera 11.62 on Vista, I'm not seeing any odd scrolling or spacing at all.}

I don't see a way to turn that off for IE7 :(

Yeah, unfortunately IE7 (released in 2006, superseded by IE8 in 2009) is very far out of date, and doesn't support modern HTML or CSS.

And even more unfortunately, a lot of businesses refuse to budge from it, leaving about 4% of the users out there a little fruited.

I noticed that even one site was implementing a 6.8% tax on users who insist on IE7 because, "This is necessary due to the amount of time required to make web pages appear correctly in IE7."  http://www.redorbit.com/news/t...b-of-ie7-with-a-tax/
This message was last edited by the user at 17:03, Tue 19 June 2012.

I switched it off when the message came, but I prefer the way the fonts looked in the "compatibility mode on" version. Can I ask what are the problems with it?

I hear you. The problem of using someone else's box :( (A manager was asked back when IE8 was new if we'd be upgrading. She wrote back 'no', everyone interpreted that as 'we will never upgrade ever for the rest of eternity' and now we're stuck. Office politics at its best.)

The site also isn't rendering properly in Lynx. Are there plans to fix that?



;)

In reply to Vinny (msg # 74):

Things may not lay out or position properly on the page.  See posts above regarding keyboard navigation (#55) and formatting links (#65) for some of the potential problems of using IE in compatibility mode.

Using it that way is your choice, of course, but I doubt jase would recommend it and if you have trouble with site functionality, the first step to solving it will be turning off compatibility mode.

Dolphin Browser HD 7.4.0

I've realized that what's happening is that "Mark all as read" is being crushed onto multiple lines due to lack of screen space. The header is also truncated to fit the original screen size, but horizontal scrolling is required to actually see some of the nav bar items.

Vinny - What c said regarding compatibility mode.  Stick with it, the fonts start to look better after a while, though I still notice the difference (well, notice it's different (than whatever it looked like before)).

erbridge - Obviously it didn't happen before?  Always a bit of an issue figuring out what it did before, but I'll see.  It must have squeezed things around differently prior.

In reply to jase (msg # 79):

As I said before, I've never used the mobile site before, so it may have always done it. I only started using it after the update.

Thanks jase, it's looking better by the day.

I am no longer having an issue with W-p scrolling funny, so thanks for whatever it was you did to fix that...

And its back, W-P & W-GM are both doing it now, nowhere else is.

That doesn't sound like RPoL, but rather something on your end (jase hasn't changed the site in the last couple days, afaiaa).  And I can't reproduce it in Opera here either (but I haven't tried really hard, either).

When it happens, does deep-refreshing the page help?

Dont even know how to do that on this machine.

Usually Ctrl+F5 or Alt+F5, depending on the browser.

Since Opera 11.62 (released at the end of March this year) you can use Control+F5 or Shift+F5 to force a refresh.

Make sure you're on a recent version of Opera (as mentioned, they were incredibly slow at supporting this) and then try one of the above tricks.

Changelog for Opera can be found here; http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1162/.  The above feature is listed there.

This is my new Wii, I dont think its version of opera even updates anymore, and there are no F/x keys on its keyboard.

Oh noes, I have a problem! I have some posts with fairly big tables. When I edit the posts in Compatability mode, I get a scroll bar in the text box. With Compatability Mode off I get word wrap instead, which makes them very hard to work with. And if I paste the table code into notepad I lose the line breaks.

Is this a setting I can change?

I'm pretty sure we've always had word wrap, unless you're editing a character sheet with fixed width on.  So no change there as far as I'm aware (though I know sometimes editing a post with a lot of long lines in it would stretch out the compose area, though it never should have (and I don't know if it still does)).

As for C+P losing the line breaks... I can replicae it here so I'll have to look into that one.  You can C+P into wordpad, then C+P from that into notepad, that seems to work ok for now as a workaround.  (Or use an alternate text editor, generally one that can handle files with just LF, rather than requiring CR+LF.)
This message was last edited by the user at 07:41, Fri 22 June 2012.

Thanks jase. But the scroll bar is there in Compatability Mode I can assure you! At least on my PC. Can rmail you a link to a thread if you like...

Compatibilty version just sucks for those scrollbars Vinny -- see my posts on it, above.   One Notepad replacement you might try is EditPad Lite: http://www.editpadlite.com/  (it's free).

Thanks cruinne, will try it.

In reply to Vinny (msg # 91):

I never doubted that it did!  What IE (or any browser) decides to do when ignoring/changing the original layout is completely up to them.  It's entirely possible to have a horizontal scrollbar in a textarea field - edit a character sheet with fixed width on and you'll see, but you'll also see how dang annoying it is when typing out normal messages like this.  Who wants a paragraph of text scrolling off into the distance on one line?  Not I!

RPOL actually looks pretty good on the iPod Touch's iOS Opera, and I don't see an appreciable difference between the regular site and m.rpol.net, but word wrap is occasionally a problem.

RPOL looks much better on iOS Opera than on Dolphin, where the text is too small to read without zooming.  I can read on alert without zooming just find.

How does one do this? I have looked at the Help window and it doesn't say how. I've also looked around on the menus in game and don't see anything that allows this. What do I put in the link to point to a specific post?

Just figured this out myself, take the url of the page you want to link to, and add # followed by the message number you want to link to.  So if you wanted to link to message 12 the url you link to will look something like /message.cgi?ABunchOfStuff#12

The reason this is listed as unreliable is that if msg #12 moves to the next page, then msg #12 no longer exists on the page you're linking to, and so the link no longer goes to the message you specified.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:50, Wed 11 July 2012.

How do we do this? I'd like to be able to link to specific messages (especially useful for closed or rules threads)

In reply to coderodent (msg # 98):

Check out the message right before the one you just posted...

*removes blinders*
Ah yes I see.

The message posts now have anchors in them with the message id set as their name, so standard html section links will work... and it will be forward compatible with html5 as they also have their id set to the number as well.

*goes to have eyes checked*

Assuming editing a post is possible indefinitely, correcting the broken link because of page # changes is always possible. It would work better in a game rather than any of the public forums - messages accumulate too quickly.

Yes, posts can be edited indefinitely.

Is it possible to link to a thread that displays alll posts in that reads thus making linking to individual posts reliable?

Or have i completly missunderstood whats going on.

The link to individual posts is only unreliable when new posts are added to the thread, and then only if enough posts are added to change the page number for that particular post.  If you link to a post in, say, a closed thread (as in, reference to a past IC event) or a Notice thread (assuming the GM isn't adding any further information to the notice), then there should be no problems with it.

That is, if I'm understanding how the whole thing is supposed to work.

In a thread of less than 1000 posts, use the "All" link before copying the URL.  Then just add the post number to the end.  This avoids pagination.

Thats what i asked so it does work.

However is there any downside to using the all URL?

It only works in threads of less than 1000 posts.  It can take longer to load for those on slow connections.  If only one person has inserted unbroken text or a huge image in only one post in the whole thread, the "All" display will be stretched crazy wide and make you scroll left and right to read.
This message was last edited by the user at 15:14, Thu 02 Aug 2012.