font changes

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 06 May 06 1:22 pm

caughtatwork has been caught at work fixing stylesheets across gca
the fonts are now slightly larger and hopefully more readable

this change involved changing quite a few files, so if you see something broken, please let us know

thanks c@w, it looks much better!

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 06 May 06 2:02 pm

Only one glitche I have seen, the time since last find for all caches have been reset to week 0....

luckily this is only for found caches.....

GIN51E · Post by **GIN51E** » 06 May 06 2:04 pm

when looking through the stats pages at the top of the screen where you select what country, state, month etc is very small

Post by **caughtatwork** » 06 May 06 5:04 pm

swampgecko wrote:Only one glitche I have seen, the time since last find for all caches have been reset to week 0....

luckily this is only for found caches.....

I didn't change any functionality only the display sizes so that could be unrelated.

Which page is this happening on and we can have a look.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 06 May 06 5:07 pm

GIN51E wrote:when looking through the stats pages at the top of the screen where you select what country, state, month etc is very small

Ah, yes.
That's an easy fix so I'll change it and get it through testing as soon as I can.

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 06 May 06 5:11 pm

GIN51E wrote:when looking through the stats pages at the top of the screen where you select what country, state, month etc is very small

Also place/state in the Leaderboard for "Top Caches"
Looks like this:
Night Stalker Cache Number 2 Closeburn, Qld
Wynyard Park Potts Point, NSW

Using Firefox Version 1.5.0.3

Post by **caughtatwork** » 06 May 06 5:15 pm

That's what it's supposed to look like. It was smaller previously, but is it too small?

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 06 May 06 5:23 pm

caughtatwork wrote:That's what it's supposed to look like. It was smaller previously, but is it too small?

It is smaller than it was previously. Not sure about others, but at that font-size (tiny, in the forum) the text is hard if not impossible to read in my browser. The letters squish together and bits of them look to be missing....
Resolution is 1024x768, 17" screen.

The rest of it is looking good though. Cache pages are more readable. Great work!

Post by **caughtatwork** » 06 May 06 5:29 pm

Okey dokey, too small

I'll make this fix later today with the other one.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 06 May 06 5:42 pm

we've fixed the last found issue. it was some alpha code that we accidently put into production with c@w's changes

Geof · Post by **Geof** » 06 May 06 10:46 pm

I can no longer get the drop down tabs on the main GCA page to work.

I normaly enter via "New post since last visit"

When I hover the mouse over the top tab the drop down drops down but when I move the mouse down the whole colum jumps side ways from under the mouse pointer and subsiquently closes the drop down making it unusable

Also the "Geocaching Australia" words to the left of the logo is now kaky purple and a different font.

I'v tryed 1024 x 768 & 800 x 600 both faulty.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 06 May 06 10:57 pm

What browser and version are you using?
The menus work in IE6, Firefox 1.5.0.2, Netscape 7.1 and Netscape 8.

"kacky purple" is the color of the visited link. Do you mean the link for the Geocaching Australia Forum? That's behaving normally.

Is there another link I can't see? Can you describe in a little more detail where this link is.

Geof · Post by **Geof** » 06 May 06 11:40 pm

caughtatwork wrote:What browser and version are you using?
The menus work in IE6, Firefox 1.5.0.2, Netscape 7.1 and Netscape 8.

"kacky purple" is the color of the visited link. Do you mean the link for the Geocaching Australia Forum? That's behaving normally.

Is there another link I can't see? Can you describe in a little more detail where this link is.

Ok I suspect it may be the browser.

I have just changed computers and it is working better on this one but is still looking a bit average. This one is IE 5.5.4522.1800IC I think the other was IE5.0?? (the one on the win98se disc)

The drop downs & tabs all seem OK on this browser. The kaky writing is now dark blue not purple.

On the other browser the old (before the server died) GCA had big issues too.

Here we go. Thats what we see now and a few words about what I saw before....

Hope that helps

Geof · Post by **Geof** » 06 May 06 11:52 pm

Well after making the above post I went back to the main page still on the same PC and it's purple now

Post by **caughtatwork** » 06 May 06 11:56 pm

Yep, that pretty much explains the problems.

Unfortunately IE5 (and IE5.5 to a lesser extent) handles CSS differently to IE6. IE6 has been around for over 4 years, so it's probably time you upgraded.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6 ... fault.mspx

Upgrading to IE6 will resolve all of those problems.

This is not to say that the site shouldn't support older browsers, but there is only so much you can do to make everything backwards compatable before you run into significant time and effort to identify the browser and version, the make up a separate style sheet for each variant.

We went with the most likely selection of browsers.

IE covers around 70% of the market (depending on who you listen to).
IE7 covers around 2% of the market.
IE6 covers around 67% of the market.
IE5.5 and lower cover less than 1% of the market.

Firefox covers around 25% of the market (and growing fast)

Netscape and the others cover the remainder.

So I recommend you upgrade if at all possible. Don't go to IE7 yet, it's only in beta testing.

What I think I'll try and do next time is provide a warning that we are going to be making substantial change to the layout and that you may want to upgrade in advance.

Thanks for providing the snapshot, it helped immensely in understanding.