LocostUSA.com

I don't know if there was a change to the site or if something changed on my computer. It seems that once I get past the initial "board index" page, my display jumps to a MUCH larger display. Maybe 640x480 or lower. If I return to the "board index" page, it stays in the zoomed display size. If I leave this site and come back, the "board index" page screen is normal, until I go on to a topic. Only the site specific info is large, not my browser header or border.

This started yesterday and continues today. It does not exist on other sites that I go to. I looked at he site setup pages and don't see any settings that look related . How do I get back to normal?

Chuck

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Same thing's happening here. I'm using an XP machine with IE 7. When I enter the site, everything is fine. Click on a thread, and all is well. After reading the thread, I hit "back" to go back to the list of new topics. The screens that were fine before have changed to a much larger font - though it's not consistant. On a Vista PC with IE 8, I haven't seen it happen yet.

Note the two screenshots below, "Regular", and when it gets "Supersized." Not only is the font larger, it's also different. For example, check out the letters on "Last visit was: Tue...."

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OK, so its not just me.

I am running Vista Home Premium SP2 and IE8.

But I just tried it on my other computer as a guest;XP SP3 and IE7. Same effect.

It seems that it is not a end-user computer setup or user selectable setup, but something at the website level.

Chuck

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Not a problem on a Mac with Firefox

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I can explain it to you,
but I can't understand it for you.

XP64 Pro / IE7 Size Change is present and annoying!

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No problems on a Mac with Safari.

There have been changes to the format, though. The "View unanswered posts" line now has dividers between each link, where it didn't before, and "View new posts" is in bold. Someone's messing around under the hood...

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I have found a work-around. My problem is halfway fixed.

On my laptop running Vista and IE8, somehow the "tools:compatibility view" checkbox got checked. Or maybe it always was checked and some other parameter changed. If I delete the check box, then it appears that everything is back to normal, even after a reboot.

However, on my desktop running XP and IE7, I still have the problem.

There must have been a change to the website or an auto-update to IE that makes IE7 (or XP) operate differently than IE8 (or Vista)

Don't know if this helps locate the root cause.

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Chuck.

“Any suspension will work if you don’t let it.” - Colin Chapman

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Any particular reason you're stuck on using IE?

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The point is that the site changed, not our browsers...

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My question was an aside. I'm not sure why anyone would willfully use IE besides web designers ensuring compatibility.

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Did you read what you just said?

"besides web designers ensuring compatibility."

All IE does is ensure INcompatibility. You're compatible today but tomorrow MS changes things with no warning or reasoning and now you have to update everything you've done.

But that is just job security for the IT guys - where the rallying cry is "go MS, I need a job!"

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I can explain it to you,
but I can't understand it for you.

Yep...something sure changed on the site, and I'm the goofball that changed it.

SORRY!!!

Just doing a little housework, and I didn't preview the pages in the older browsers. In fact, I didn't preview in anything but FireFox until I heard that some of you were having issues.

Bear with me...I'll put it back the way it was before (which oddly enough was broken HTML) and find a more elegant way to make (and test!) updates. I may post some test links to this thread, only visible to Locost Only Site Testers (LOST), a secret society open only to YOU!

-dave "no browser left behind" hempy

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It seems I have IE 7 on my XP machine (who knew?) and while I couldn't get the exact effect described and shown above, I found enough weirdness to remind myself why I don't use IE.

I found some errors (style and javascript definitions in the <body>, not the <head>) and a charset error. This made my IE behave. The charset issue may be why you weren't seeing the dividers before.

How about the rest of you? Let me know if there is any weirdness in your browser of chioce.

-dave

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Not so odd really. Breaking things in various ways is basically a MicroSoft business practice. Remember "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"...

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Dave. It appears that your "un-fix" worked. It works on my IE8/Vista system both with and without "Compatibility View". It also works on my IE7/XP system.

Funny thing is that I had it happen to me once yesterday on one other website. I could not get it to duplicate again.

Now I can spend time on the build instead of playing quality control inspector.

Thanks, Chuck

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Chuck.

“Any suspension will work if you don’t let it.” - Colin Chapman

Visit my ongoing MGB Rustoration log: over HERE

Or my Wankel powered Locost log : over HERE

And don't forget my Cushman Truckster resto Locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=17766