Vertical space

pbacot · 5 Oct 2012, 18:25

Up to me? I'll take the first one!

pbacot · 5 Oct 2012, 20:31

I notice that on a 17" monitor (wide format laptop)(1280x800), Mac / Firefox, I need to scroll for the last bit to see the next page buttons (at the bottom of the page). Didn't ever see that before. This is sort of the opposite of the width issue noted above. Shouldn't most elements be within a standard window width? 15" or 17"? Especially navigation buttons? Just being helpful....

Gaieus · 5 Oct 2012, 21:07

Didn't you incidentally zoom in? Press Ctrl+0 (zero) to zoom 100% on the website. The whole width is 960 pixels altogether so should fit on a 1200 something monitor.

Box · 5 Oct 2012, 21:12

It's a Mac Gai,, anything is possible.

Gaieus · 5 Oct 2012, 21:55

Well, Mac or not, 960 pixels (or 940 with 10 pixel margin on each side) is just 940 pixels.

wind-borne · 5 Oct 2012, 23:26

vertical space? 2 lines of post fill a screen

EscapeArtist · 6 Oct 2012, 19:49

I like the space. I have a 1920x1080 LCD and keeping everything in that nice little strip down the middle makes it easier to read. With web pages that go edge-to-edge I have to sit way back from the screen to see everything.

pbacot · 7 Oct 2012, 03:28

That's not the space OP (I) was speaking of

I mean the waste of space (loose grouping of buttons, line spacing, extra features etc.) requiring much more scrolling down the page than before.

I think you DO have to have sufficient side buffers so everyone doesn't have to scroll sideways on regular screens. (As a matter of fact, on a wide 17 in screen, I have to scroll sideways to use this forum now as well.)

EscapeArtist · 7 Oct 2012, 12:46

That's true. I do find myself hunting for things that are a little spaced out, but I just blame myself for needing time to get used to the new layout.

Dan Rathbun · 15 Nov 2012, 20:56

@dan rathbun said:

I also wonder why the forum Title needs to be so large it's uses 33px and has a 15px bottom margin, for a total of 48px in height.

OK.. thanks Gai or Rich, I see someone added a specific CSS rule to remove the unneeded 15px bottom margin.

Well 15px is a start for ya', Peter.

Rich O Brien · 16 Nov 2012, 17:45

Also try the Page Eraser Chrome Extension if space is an issue

Dan Rathbun · 16 Nov 2012, 19:19

Peter,

Another option for saving vertical space and reducing scrolling, in topic pages:

Goto User Control Panel
Choose the Board preferences tab
Select the Edit display options panel

Turn OFF signatures
Turn OFF avatars
(Your choice) to also turn OFF images in posts

etc... click the Submit button, when done.