Forums upgraded to phpBB 3.0.9

[orudge]

Hi all,

The forums have been upgraded to phpBB 3.0.9. Along with this, I've updated our Tapatalk plugin, and our anti-spam plugin. Whether the latter will have any effect on the amount of spam we're getting, I don't know, but we can only hope!

As always, if anybody notices anything unusual or broken, do let me know.

[Voyager One]

Hi,

Something unusual noticed. I don't know is it supposed to be like that and if it has anything to do with the upgrade... all buttons, some yellow links, and Smilies i.e., they all seem smaller. And no, I haven't changed my screen resolution...

[orudge]

Can you post a screenshot? And have you recently upgraded to Firefox 5? I notice text rendering in Firefox 5 (on Windows at least) seems a little different to what I remember before. Although, according to some web site, that may actually be due to a recent Windows update that altered DirectWrite behaviour, which Firefox 4 and later uses.

[Voyager One]

I haven't changed anything with my computer in the last few months and this occured only this morning. I'm using Win XP and IE 8.

Please, tell me how to make a screenshot (yeah, I know I'm a dummy ).

[orudge]

Press the Print Screen key. Paste into Paint or another application, crop down to just show the bits you need, save and upload.

[Voyager One]

These three buttons seem smaller, like the text has been crammed inside.

I was wrong about smilies, they're OK, sorry.

[orudge]

Hmm, I do see that on Chrome and IE, but not on Firefox (even with a hard refresh). Not really sure why that might be, to be honest - no changes have been made to the CSS that should affect buttons. The only CSS changes made involved links.

[Lord Aro]

They look normal to me (i.e. they've looked like that (to me) for months+)

[Voyager One]

I could be wrong... now I'm not sure any more... The "Submit" button just felt smaller, I had to pinpoint it with the cursor insted clicking it "by memory".

[Lakie]

I know that moving from GDI+ to DirectWrite, a lot of the text seems smaller in my browser. In particular changing from Firefox 4 (GDI+) to Firefox 5 (DirectWrite).
(What I think are the default rendering mechanisms, I know it could be optionally enabled in Firefox 4).
I imagine the same is true for users of Internet Explorer who may have been upgraded from Internet Explorer 8 to Internet Explorer 9, (I believe it was made a 'recommended' / 'automatic' windows update a while ago).

Of course, this particular interface change only applies to Windows Vista and above...

~ Lakie

[Alberth]

Since one or two days, my 'enter message' box part is no longer limited to the width of my screen. This is highly annoying, as part of the message text disappears when writing a longer sentences, and the vertical scrollbar when writing longer messages is not accessible.

The posted messages as well as the preview do align nicely at the right, like they used to.
See the screenshot of the window, and notice the blue horizontal scroll bar at the bottom.

Using firefox 5.0, running Linux.

[orudge]

Hmm, phpBB 3.0.9 did make changes to the textarea CSS:

width: 700px; height: 270px; min-width: 98%; max-width: 98%;

It seems you need a minimum browser width of around 900 pixels for this to appear correctly. However, you seem to have extremely large fonts, so that possibly means you need a larger browser window. From what I can understand, those changes were made to fix a bug with IE, though, so I'd rather not remove something that's going to break other people's browsers again.

[Alberth]

I may need a wider browser window, but I have about 1cm screen space left horizontally
I just checked it, and the window is about 1210 pixels wide inside.

As for fonts, my minimal setting is 10pt, which I think is reasonable.

I guess I just have to live with it.

[FooBar]

Alberth, I have that same behavious when I zoom in (too much) using ctrl+scrollwheel.
However, Firefox has an option to only zoom the text rather than the whole webpage. If I select that option, I can zoom in without problems. So you might want to give that a try. You can find it in the View > Zoom menu.

[Alberth]

Thanks, that works!

It gives insanely big letters in the editor, but the editor box stays within the window.

Albert