Problem with the guidebook

Post by **Dirtbag1** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:52 pm

Okay, bear with me here. When I'm searching around in the guidebook and go to look at a region ( ie; Southern Region, Nat. Bridge Region...), The GREEN links for different crags all appear in the same place on the screen. It's like they're on top of each other. The Index is the same way. Is there a setting I need to change or is the guidebook just under construction? Thanks for any help

Post by **Andrew** » Thu May 01, 2003 12:02 am

do you use a mac

Post by **Dirtbag1** » Thu May 01, 2003 12:08 am

Nope, PC.

Post by **Andrew** » Thu May 01, 2003 1:24 am

Ive seen it happen on a mac, so I was just wondering. Sounds like a strange one, but I have seen it before so its not just your machine

Post by **Jack** » Thu May 01, 2003 1:25 am

What browser do you use? The guide uses standard HTML and CSS, but not all browsers support CSS.

Normally if your browser doesn't do CSS you get a list of links that is a single column, instead of multiple columns.

Post by **Dirtbag1** » Thu May 01, 2003 1:33 am

Yeh, that was it. For some reason I was running netscape instead of explorer. It's always something simple. Thanks for the help guys.

Post by **tomdarch** » Thu May 01, 2003 3:50 pm

Verbal wrote:Ive seen it happen on a mac, so I was just wondering. Sounds like a strange one, but I have seen it before so its not just your machine

I've been using Safari (the build that introduced tabs) with no problems. I'm stuck with IE on NT at the office, but I've started using Mozilla on my home WinTel box. So far I haven't had any of these sort of page display problems and all the 'functions' (pm, etc.) work fine.

I can't say how things look on Mac OSX IE - I've avoided it as much as possible now that Safari is out!

Post by **Gretchen** » Thu May 01, 2003 5:58 pm

YEah, I didn't follow that? Anybody else out there that's just as cornfused?

Post by **tomdarch** » Thu May 01, 2003 7:04 pm

Gretchen wrote:YEah, I didn't follow that? Anybody else out there that's just as cornfused?

Sorry ... the problem being discussed is that when Dirtbag1 looks at the Online Guidebook, parts of it are overlapping on his screen. Verbal (indirectly) brought up the issue of various browsers and operating systems. Almost everyone viewing this is probably using some version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer on a computer running some version of Windows. Internet Explorer (IE) does some wierd things to web pages, but because it's currently popular, most web designers work around those quirks. But there are lots of other browsers and operating systems out there. Ideally, all web pages would look and act the same on every browser on every operating system, but in reality, there are lots of variations. Verbal asked if the problem was Mac-specific, but it's not. I was mentioning that I use Apple's new web browser, Safari. It's faster and more standards compliant than IE on the Mac. It has the very cool function of Tabs (you can have multiple pages open in one window, and switch from page to page by clicking on a row of tabs at the top of the window) Odds are IE will copy this function very soon, because it's soooo useful. I have a "WinTel" computer at home, it runs WINdows on an INTEL type-processor - odds are just like your computer. But instead of using IE, I got a competeing browser called Mozilla, which is where tabs became popular.

My point in mentioning all of this is to let Ray know that the forums and online guide are all working well on these somewhat oddball setups.

Post by **gulliver** » Thu May 01, 2003 11:10 pm

Mac OS X and IE work ok for me on the guide book. I've been avoiding Safari on this site because when I would click "view posts since your last visit" , I would get a snag, then lose the archive of posts if I tried to change browsers??It's been a while and I have updated Safari since then , so maybe it's fixed