Using the spoiler function correctly

[diane]

Spoiler

There are only two choices for me.

I like 16/11 6/5* but the number of return hits (47% of rolls) gives me caution. There are four double-taps (5-2, 5-6) plus 5-5 which would be particularly unpleasant triple hit. Then there are 12 obvious single hits and some possibles (depending on the opponent's desire for a blotfest, eg. hitting loose on the ace point with a 6, or going to the wall, 3/1*(2), with a 2-2).

I voted for the unaggressive move, 17/16 8/3, commandeering our opponent's 9 point and slotting our home behind his blot. It's risk-free but it relies on the hope that there's enough awkwardness in his position that he'll present a shot.

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does anyone know what has happened with that post? When I click the spoiler, I get a 2.5 line window and have to scroll to read what is written.  In this case, where bunny has written a lot, I can't read every other line because I can't get the top half or the bottom half of the first/third line.

It essentially means I cant read it, because my eyes cant handle the awkward visual effects - and it looked interesting   

Oooh, I can read it from the quote screen  , but that isn't the point, I have seen this before - but when I have used the spoiler and checked what I have written, it comes as a box big enough for the whole text.  I can't see anything different with the coding in the quote, so wondered if anyone else knows what us with it, how to fix it, and a work around if that cant be done.

Interestingly - it seems to work here properly, but back on the originating thread
http://www.fibsboard.com/fibsboard-forum-matches/match-1-game-1-move-7-forum-checker-t2359.0.html;msg17559#msg17559
it doesnt work - is it connected with page length? 

[stog]

it - the original , does work on on my firefox

what browser r  u ?

[diane]

Hmm, maybe that it is it - safari, since firefox started being a pest and forgetting all my passwords two or three times a week. 

[playBunny]

Spoiler

I'm curious as to whether it's a browser problem or a forum problem. I know that I recently created a post in the forum/factotumn match threads and then noticed that I hadn't put it inside a spoiler protection. I did a modify to add the spoiler. perhaps was the cause of the strangeness? Whether it was the spoiler in question is another matter.

So, here's another post that I've submitted and then modified by adding a spoiler. Does this one turn into a 2.5 line box, too?

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[diane]

No, that one is just fine, I am thinking it is a browser and page length problem.  That would make it fairly localised to me, and the handful of other safari users, so not a huge problem.  At that point a workaround will do.

[stog]

i can't replicate the prob on safari(3.2.1) but then again there r noughts and numbers behind these letters i am told.....
any opera users out there? the latest 2 firefoxes have been baling out more often but i have bloated bookmarks and a tendency to run way too many apps at the same time..... beats the old times though

[socksey]

I use Internet Explorer and I've never had a problem like you describe, diane.  I would guess it's your browser.  However, I did use Firefox for a short while long ago.  I don't remember having any specific problems with it, but I did go back to Internet Explorer for some reason.   

socksey



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[diane]

Spoiler

I'm curious as to whether it's a browser problem or a forum problem. I know that I recently created a post in the forum/factotumn match threads and then noticed that I hadn't put it inside a spoiler protection. I did a modify to add the spoiler. perhaps was the cause of the strangeness? Whether it was the spoiler in question is another matter.

So, here's another post that I've submitted and then modified by adding a spoiler. Does this one turn into a 2.5 line box, too?

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ok...interesting....now this spoiler doesnt work....my leaning is even more towards the page length again, cos there are more posts on here than the last time I tried it....the attachment shows what I mean for interest.

[socksey]

No.  No problem here.

socksey



You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. â€" Bob Hope, on turning 90

[Zorba]

No problems here. I use Firefox 3.0.8 on WindowsXP.

[diane]

I am gonna give firefox another try, see if it is past its amnesia state yet