Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread Andrew Gray
On 11 July 2010 14:26, Benjamin Esham wrote: >> b) We're easily contactable, so people do write to us to ask about it >> rather than just throwing up their hands over it - a perception bias on my >> part > > To be fair, though... for how many websites are you in a position to see > such problems?

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 July 2010 14:33, David Gerard wrote: > Ah, so the layout is completely broken? Tch. > Do you know what version of IE you're using? I think the developers > basically decided ... to stop supporting old IE because it was ridiculously difficult to do so. However, it *should* be possible to d

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 July 2010 14:07, Marc Riddell wrote: > on 7/11/10 8:43 AM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote: >> There should be a "Toolbox" thing with a little triangle in it at the >> side. Clicking the triangle will expand it. >> (Apparently, this is obvious to everyone.) > It is obvious to me, a

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread Benjamin Esham
Andrew Gray wrote: > Marc Riddell wrote: > > > [possible page-zoom issues] > > But why is it we get these issues? Three possibilities leap out at me: > > a) it actually happens fairly randomly across all sites, but people tend > to come back to Wikipedia, so that while it may seem a once-off pr

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread Marc Riddell
on 7/11/10 8:43 AM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote: > On 11 July 2010 13:33, Marc Riddell wrote: > >> Thanks, Josh. I tried what you suggested but nothing changed. And this is >> strange. I've been using Internet Explorer with the same skin (MonoBook) >> ever since I started editing WP

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 July 2010 13:33, Marc Riddell wrote: > Thanks, Josh. I tried what you suggested but nothing changed. And this is > strange. I've been using Internet Explorer with the same skin (MonoBook) > ever since I started editing WP four years ago without a problem. I realize > that the IE version I'm

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread Marc Riddell
on 7/10/10 1:33 PM, Joshua Scott at joshua.sc...@gmail.com wrote: > Try pressing Ctrl and - (the minus key) to reduce the size. > > -Josh Thanks, Josh. I tried what you suggested but nothing changed. And this is strange. I've been using Internet Explorer with the same skin (MonoBook) ever since

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread Carcharoth
I encountered something similar recently (in the sense that it was the GUI playing up). I would load pages and would immediately be taken to the bottom of the page and kind of bounce up and down there rapidly (if you know what I mean). I think I traced it to my mouse having been pressed up against

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread Andrew Gray
On 10 July 2010 18:10, Marc Riddell wrote: > I'm having trouble with the appearance of and, in some instances, gaining > access to various links on the WP site. The same thing is happening on the > Wiktionary site. This just started happening this morning. Every page I go > to has very large type.

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-11 Thread Joshua Scott
Try pressing Ctrl and - (the minus key) to reduce the size. -Josh On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Marc Riddell wrote: > on 7/10/10 1:20 PM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On 10 July 2010 18:10, Marc Riddell wrote: > > > >> I'm having trouble with the appearance of and, in some

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-10 Thread Marc Riddell
on 7/10/10 1:31 PM, Marc Riddell at michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote: > on 7/10/10 1:20 PM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On 10 July 2010 18:10, Marc Riddell wrote: >> >>> I'm having trouble with the appearance of and, in some instances, gaining >>> access to various links on th

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-10 Thread Marc Riddell
on 7/10/10 1:20 PM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote: > On 10 July 2010 18:10, Marc Riddell wrote: > >> I'm having trouble with the appearance of and, in some instances, gaining >> access to various links on the WP site. The same thing is happening on the >> Wiktionary site. This just sta

Re: [WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 July 2010 18:10, Marc Riddell wrote: > I'm having trouble with the appearance of and, in some instances, gaining > access to various links on the WP site. The same thing is happening on the > Wiktionary site. This just started happening this morning. Every page I go > to has very large type

[WikiEN-l] I Need Some Help

2010-07-10 Thread Marc Riddell
I'm having trouble with the appearance of and, in some instances, gaining access to various links on the WP site. The same thing is happening on the Wiktionary site. This just started happening this morning. Every page I go to has very large type. And the WP globe, as well as the boxes underneath i