The New Message Board

[johnwpb]

The new board is looking great, and all set for tommorrows unveiling!

One concern however, the display width of the new board. When it was first set up for testing it looked fantastic! Now the width of the board has been severely narrowed down. I feel like I am looking at it on a 14" monitor in 640x480

Was there some concern or reason for changing it? This board fills the screen 100%, no matter what resolution you have your screen set to, as the other one did to start with.... In my humble opinion, the new one should be the same way. The table witdh set to 100% and it will just "Auto adjust" to the viewers settings.

I know I run a pretty high resolution, but I am sure with the techies that hang out on the board, many others do as well.

Just a suggestion....

Here's a snapshot of what the new board looks like on my monitor.

[Rupp]

Look at this thread and you may see exactly why they did this. I personally like the fact that it prohibits the infinite expanding as is demonstrated in this thread.

[johnwpb]

So if it dosent expand, then what happens, It gets cut off? I realize posting that image was extreme, and I resized the image, but that is what the new board looks like on my screen. I may as well go back to a 14" monitor.

[Rupp]

No, it's twice as wide as the browser window.

[johnwpb]

Sorry Rupp, what I meant, is what would happen on the NEW board.. Would a wide image just be cut off to match the size of the table set, losing the information on the right of the image?

[Rupp]

No if I remember correctly it should put scroll bars on the image. Look on the right side.

[Stevech]

Isn't the philosophy of HTML is that the width is not fixed - it is a function of your display and browser?

I've registered my gripe about the fixed narrow width.

[sbessel]

I agree the board looked much nicer before the 'forced width' - now it is very limiting...

Depressing on my 19" monitor...

[johnwpb]

If one concideration is the HS logo/banner at the top (Which looks FANTASTIC by the way!), that is easily remedied.

I just doenloaded it, cut it up and tried it here. The way the graphic is designed, it is easily split down the center. Then you can put the whole thing in 3 table columns. Left half in the left column, The center just being the light blue color an the right half in the right column. That way it can "slide" or expand to fill the page, and the color transition is seamless.

[zoomkat]

Here is how much of the post is visible on a 640x480 screen. Endless scrolling back and forth to read.

[johnwpb]

Zoomcat, I see your point. That is exactly why, when I design ANY webiste, that the table width is specified in Percent and NOT in pixel widths.

If this UBB board was set to display the table, that this page is in at 95%, then it would not matter if you were on a 640 x 480, or 1280 x 1024 screen, as it would simply fill 95% of the screen. The smaller the screen width, the longer the page would be as it had to wrap all the text lines ect.

The next time you post a message on this UBB board, drag the pop-up window to the right to make it larger and see what happens, that is the way things, in properly written HTML, are supposed to work, it adjusts to the width of the window itself. To bad the rest of the UBB board isnt that smart by looking at Zoomcats 640 x 480 screen cap.

[George]

I don't like it either.

It will result in endless vertical scrolling.

My vote, put it back.

[jrfuda]

1. I prefer the percent of for the width... But I never browse at less than 800x600, so it will likely not matter for me.

2. CocoonTech uses fixed width. In order to accomidate images, it make large clickable thumbnails that exapnd to actual size on click - in their own window.

[electron]

CocoonTech uses fixed width (had some issues with the templating system), but the new version of CocoonTech will be more dynamic for some of the reasons posted. Images attached to posts will be resized in vBulletin too, unless you embed them with the [img][/img] tags. I run 1600x1200 at home, so CocoonTech reminds me every day I have to fix this asap

[johnwpb]

Electron. Sounds great! I love your board, but was always hoping that it was somehting you were gonna work on

I am using Invision power board on one of my clients sites, and it does the same as you mentioned. It shows a large thumbnail of the image, and when you click it opens full size in a pop-up window. This lets the board run full screen with no issues.

I know the HST crew has put a LOT of time and efford to make this the beat board possible, and I commend them for that for sure! I just hope that something can be done to fix the narrow width of the new board.