Layout breaks at 800x600 on AskMe in IE 6.

December 14, 2003 3:11 PM

Layout breaks at 800x600 on AskMe in IE 6. Screenshot inside.
posted by Grod to Bugs at 3:11 PM (6 comments total)

Just noticed it does it here to, and now I wonder if it happens on the Blue and I just never noticed.
posted by Grod at 3:12 PM on December 14, 2003

I dunno if I'd actually call that "broken". Just looks like the column is too narrow to have "post as:" on one line if you're running at low resolution. I imagine it looks even worse on 640x480. I'd call it an esthetic compromise more than a bug.
posted by Hildago at 3:15 PM on December 14, 2003

yeah, i wouldn't call it broken, more of a resolution thing. but after looking at the source, i've noticed that my username and password is available.
posted by poopy at 3:36 PM on December 14, 2003

Yes, the login info being in the source confuses me a bit too. There's already a cookie set for *.metafilter.com, so why have it in the page source too? Not much harm in it I guess, though some people are more paranoid about their browser cache than their cookies.
posted by fvw at 5:00 PM on December 14, 2003

Yeah, the user/pass stuff is lazy programming from years ago that I need to clean up.

I'll fix the word wrapping too.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:07 PM on December 14, 2003

Isn't this more an issue of the text size setting in IE that is causing the problem, rather than the page itself? Looking at the screenshot, the text looks very big.
posted by dg at 11:26 PM on December 14, 2003