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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/30/07 17:16
Mika wrote:
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
> news:93a60$47501fd3$40cba7ad$25160@NAXS.COM...
>> Mika wrote:
>>> "Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
>>> news:474f55b1$0$24310$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>> Mika wrote:
>>>>> "Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:474eb5ac$0$2557$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, where does George St. end? In Opera 9,21 (Linux) I am able to
>>>>>> walk (run) from the intersection of George St. and Red Lion St. all
>>>>>> the way to the 3 way intersection of George St., The Square, and The
>>>>>> Quadrant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Norm
>>>>> That is correct. George Street works perfectly in Opera, as does
>>>>> Portobello Road as we have said. Oxford Street however does not work
>>>>> correctly in Opera, that is you can only scroll up to House of Fraser.
>>>>> In any other browser you can scroll continuously more than twice as
>>>>> far.
>>>> Can confirm that, Opera 9.21 (Linux for me) has a ceiling of 32765px
>>>> for the width of a DIV, after which it does not display. The limit does
>>>> not exist for the height attribute. Even tried setting it with
>>>> javascript.
>>>>
>>>> Norm
>>> PS: Opera have been in touch and accepted the issue. They have improved
>>> it for the 9.5 beta and tested our site, but there is still a restriction
>>> (around 60000px now). We are working with them to take the ceiling off
>>> it altogether
>> See, this is where the "regulars" have been trying to explain the
>> "wrongheadedness" of your design. The Web is not a media of vast
>> horizontal content. It is a "web", the interconnection, the network, of
>> smaller discreet bits of information that creates the synergy that is the
>> Internet. What you are trying to make is a platform scroller game more
>> suited for Nintendo.
>
> Jonathan, if a website works perfectly with IE, FF, Safari, Netscape... yet
> Opera has a limitation that they have admitted and are in the beta phase of
> fixing, let me get this straight, you are saying it is Superhighstreet that
> is 'wrong', not Opera? ...Who have admitted their bug.
No I am saying but your are not hearing that your design concept does
not really fit the strengths of the media!
>
> I'm pleased at least to see that you've changed your previous opinion where
> you stated Opera has no such limitation (search back in this thread), along
> with some insulting words thrown in to illustrate your 'point'. 'Short
> bloke' syndrome Mr Little? :P
I never said any such thing with respect to the Opera browser. Maybe you
better search back in this thread.
>
> Have just had a look at your website. Hahahha! Very innovative.
Er, thanks.
> At least
> it loads fast I guess ;)
That it does.
> Might want to get your own house up to an
> impressive level before pointing fingers at other people's.
>
I'll take that for what it is...
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Take care,
Jonathan
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