MeFi formatting on TabletPC

September 12, 2005 11:45 AM

Ok, I was just viewing MeFi on my TabletPC. When in tablet mode, longer usernames in the "posted by" span mess up the formatting if they're near the top of the page. (It's pushed down by the sidebar.) I have an example here. (warning, ~130k. Please be gentle on my server.) Is there anything that can be done about this?
posted by mystyk to Bugs at 11:45 AM (8 comments total)

I was able to repeat the error if in normal mode I adjust the window width. It only happens if the width of screen minus sidebar is only slightly smaller than the span for the given post. I know this wouldn't concern most people, but it is somewhat annoying.
posted by mystyk at 11:51 AM on September 12, 2005

I get this same problem on occasion, on desktop and laptop Windows machines running Firefox.
posted by killdevil at 12:05 PM on September 12, 2005

How about just collapsing the sidebar when you're using your tablet?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:21 PM on September 12, 2005

Reduce the font size for small text in your MeFi preferences.
posted by riffola at 12:39 PM on September 12, 2005

I've also noticed this on Firefox from time to time; generally when using a smaller browser window.

After tinkering with the CSS, removing margin-right: 0px; from the .smallcopy style seemed to fix any problems with this.
posted by zsazsa at 12:51 PM on September 12, 2005

Correction: that should be removing margin-right: 20px;.
posted by zsazsa at 12:52 PM on September 12, 2005

I owe zsazsa a coke. Thanks, looks like that fixed it (and I fixed it across all three subsites)
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:39 PM on September 12, 2005

domo arigatoo gozaimasu
posted by mystyk at 2:30 PM on September 12, 2005