Posted by Carolyn Marenger on 03/13/06 12:27

Cinnamon Thunder wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> Our client requested we fix this but I don't know where to start.
>
> It's a shop using X-Cart shopping cart system.
>
> You may view the site @
> http://www.mousemall.co.za/home.php?shopkey=m0us3
>
> When loading the homepage for instance, the 3 product boxes columns
> (Featured products: im using 3 columns) have different widths.
>
> For instance the left column is wider than the other 3... then once the
> page has finished loading they jump back to their specified width.
>
> You don't really see it on a fast connection, but on a modem connection
> its quite visible.
>
> I know this isn't a MAJOR problem, but the client is jumping up and down
> and I don't know where to turn. The site is going live today sometime.
>
> Please, any ideas?? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Xenlab

I checked and I could not replicate your problem. When I used mozilla
firefox v1.0.2 the site looks normal. Very slow to finish loading, with
the center content not appearing until the end. My guess would be, it
didn't try to render the section until it knew the dimensions of the
content. To see what I saw...

http://www.marenger.com/mousemall/mousemall-mozilla-p1.png

I did experience another problem however. My default browser, konqueror
totally screwed up the page. With the exception that the majority of your
hopeful customers won't be using konqueror, it would in my mind be a
critical issue. I can't say that I have ever seen such a garbled mess, so
the easiest way to tell you about it is to show you. p1 is the top third
of the page, p2 is the bottom third.

http://www.marenger.com/mousemall/mousemall-p1.png
http://www.marenger.com/mousemall/mousemall-p2.png

Good luck in working this out.

Carolyn
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Carolyn Marenger

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