Okay, maybe it’s just me and my browser, but what’s happening with the ‘thickness’ of borders between posts?
Given this thread, I notice that if you look at the blue line beneath every post, it changes from some posts to others. MEBuckner’s got a thicker line, whilst Broomstick ain’t got none at all.
Is there something I’m missing, or is it something I just noticed? I’m not picking on a thread, it just happens to be one I’ve been perusing through.
Looks normal to me with I.E. 6. Maybe your browser’s just not loading the page completely.
Ahh, you’re using “Straight Dope” style. What happens with me is that the blue bad gets obscured as you scroll and the browser doesn’t rewrite them. If you minimize the window and then restore it they should reappear normally.
If I select text, spilling over from one post to another, the space between the posts goes blue.
My mouse had a mousewheel, and the featuer that I can push on it, and then scroll down the page by moving the mouse relative to a little circle it creates in place of the cursor.
That circle eats a little bite out of the border as I scroll.
I don’t have IE (any version), but, FTR, I checked this under a few Linux browsers (Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla Firefox 0.8, Galeon 1.2, Konqueror 3.1.1) , and I didn’t see any variation in thickness (or other problems) in the linked thread. I don’t know what’s causing it, but it’s probably a browser specific issue. IE is known to bungle CSS in some cases, but I don’t know enough to say where it might have a problem.
Mentally choose one of those thinner lines, then scroll the page up and down such that the thin line disappears above the top of the page. When you bring it back down, magically it changes thickness, goes back to thin, or disappears entirely. Very random.
Also shorter lines. When I first entered this thread Tripler’s line was shorter on each end by 1/2 inch than the other posters. And some had no line. But sometime while I was reading they all filled in.
I’ve noticed that too, TheMadHun. While I scrolled down a few longer threads whilst browsing last night, it did the same thing. Or, a post would have no line, but it would magically appear if I scrolled back up.
Weird indeed.
Tripler
I found it first, so I’m calling it “Tripler’s Mystery”.
Not so fast! :mad: I reported it on 01-26-2004 (see my post above). First publication, you know.
Thus any gentleman would agree it be called rowrrbazzle’s riddle. Otherwise we shall meet on the field of honor! Choose your weapon. I propose searches at 10 paces.
Aaah yes, but it’s not about first publication. It’s about marketing my friend! Edison knew Alternating Current was dangerous, and proceeded to electrocute a pachyderm in the process. However, wiser minds came to bear, and realized that if they marketed AC correctly, it would win. And that’s why my computer runs off of 120V, 60Hz.
And thus my point: Are you willing to electrocute an elephant?
Tripler
And in retrospect on the above text, I have no idea why I just told that story. But I’m tired, and I guess it works in my sleepy little world.
While fiddling around, I rediscovered wolfstu’s trick with the mouse wheel scroll cursor. I also noticed some odd results with the find box (ctl-f). Here are the ways I moved it across the separator and the results.[ul][li]straight side to side, any speed - full thickness.[/li][li]straight up and down quickly - full thickness.[/li][li]straight up and down slower - varying thicknesses left by the trailing edge depending on the speed. On one attempt I got a thin separator with a little white space on both sides. On another attempt while moving the box up, I got two thin separators, with white space between them, each separator abutting the nearest post.[/li][li]straight up and down, very slowly - separator completely erased where the box crossed it.[/li][li]diagonally, upper left to lower right, slowly - across a full thickness separator, the upper edge erased the separator diagonally on the right side. Where the left upper edge passed over the separator, it was erased cleanly and completely, i.e., with a vertical edge.[/li][/ul]It’s odd that different speeds would affect the erasure in the up-down motion and not in the side-to-side motion. Could it be related to the top-to-bottom way the screen is scanned?
And it was indeed marketed correctly. To the board of directors of the World’s Columbian Exhibtion in 1893 in Chicago. Except that Westinghouse based their Alternating Current power installation on Tesla’s ideas, not Edison’s; Edison championed DC power generation.
