Re: Horizontal scrolling

[Tim Gwinn <***>]

Welcome the list, Athel!

 

Sorry to hear you are having problems with reading some msgs. Despite the additional formatting codes in HTML, I think it is too often useful to deny the usage of HTML in posts.

 

Let's try a test.

 

I am using Outlook 2000. This is sent in HTML, but I have Outlook options set to auto-wrap HTML email output at a 76 char width.

 

How does the following text display?

 

Athel wrote:

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How are you viewing it? If I read it as e-mail then there is no problem (apart from the wasted band-width, with about 65% of the transmission taken up with garbage that gets stripped out before I normally see it). The problem comes if I read it with a web browser, which is the way I normally access news groups as it's useful to have the information threaded.

It may be that if you visit the page with a set-up exactly equivalent to what microsoft assumed when they set the Outlook Express defaults then it comes out OK, but there are tremendous number of different systems in use and the only way to get web pages to display properly on all of them is to transmit them correctly. For the record, I have checked Judith's message with three different browsers (Safari, iCab, Internet Explorer) and none of them displays it in a reasonable size of window without requiring horizontal scrolling.

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Regards,

Tim

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:***]On Behalf Of Athel
> Cornish-Bowden
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:47 AM
> To: ***
> Subject: Re: Horizontal scrolling
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:35:45 +0200, Ayten Aydin <***> wrote:
>
> >On Judith's messages: need for horizontal scrolling;
> >I have no problem with Judith's messages. They appear on my
> screen exactly
> >as your message has appeared. I can read both with the same
> ease. Could the
> >problem be on your side?
>
> How are you viewing it? If I read it as e-mail then there is no
> problem (apart from the wasted band-width, with about 65% of the
> transmission taken up with garbage that gets stripped out before
> I normally see it). The problem comes if I read it with a web
> browser, which is the way I normally access news groups as it's
> useful to have the information threaded.
>
> It may be that if you visit the page with a set-up exactly
> equivalent to what microsoft assumed when they set the Outlook
> Express defaults then it comes out OK, but there are  tremendous
> number of different systems in use and the only way to get web
> pages to display properly on all of them is to transmit them
> correctly. For the record, I have checked Judith's message with
> three different browsers (Safari, iCab, Internet Explorer) and
> none of them displays it in a reasonable size of window without
> requiring horizontal scrolling.
>
> athel