Adrian wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:44:49 -0800, "Frank ess"
wrote:

It does unpleasant things on my Opera browser:
Text is illegible, since it appears all on top of itself
Your (remarkably unremarkable) photo thumbnails are all laid out in
one long string, requiring (horrors!) horizontal scrolling.

Are you still using Opera v6 by any chance?

As I discovered a while back when trying to change my own website's
design from clunky tables to stylesheets, this failure to wrap round
CSS boxes containing images was an Opera failing and at the time
caused me a lot of scratching of head.

I've just looked at the site in v6 and it does as you say, but in v7
it's fine, as it is in other browsers that correctly interpret the
particular bit of CSS that makes this work (eg IE, Mozilla/Firefox).


Thanks for responding: right on the nose.

Yes, v6.05. I've tried Opera 7 every six months for a couple years, but
it always runs slower than 6, and installs at such a grand size and with
so many bells and whistles, the whole purpose of using Opera is
cancelled. I have come across very few useful sites that don't
accommodate v6 (the one under discussion, and Nikon's, for examples), so
the gain is greater than the loss, so far. If something is worthwhile I
switch to MSIE and turn on the patience.

Off-topic: why is it that an Old Opera can work so quickly and a
multi-billion user/backer mess like MSIE can't?

More Magick than science, my view.


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Frank ess