Difficulty Viewing Forum on Mobile Phone

froger · November 2021

Is anyone else having trouble viewing on mobile?
This started a week or so ago.
I can't scroll left/right or zoom.

jojo · November 2021

Yep. Mine has been like this for weeks.

pitshade · November 2021

On Firefox for Android, you can get something close to normal by opening options and changing the slider to Desktop view.

darthpotater · November 2021

Now they fixed the CSS but is curious that you cant see the forum topics ... in a forum lol

froger · November 2021

@nitocris83 I want ensure this gets seen as it won't be on mobile.

percemer · November 2021

Greetings,

We are aware of this issue, but it depends on Vanilla. We already escalated it to them.

Meanwhile, @pitshade shared the best solution: you can activate the Desktop view on mobile in the browser's menu.

Regards,

ravenskya · November 2021

Okay I feel better that it wasn’t just me

froger · February 2022

Bump
Only because it's been a while.

froger · April 2022

Bumpity bump bump

nitocris83 · April 2022

Hey folks - I'll check with Vanilla for an update on this. Thanks!

peppa · April 2022

darthpotater said:
Now they fixed the CSS but is curious that you cant see the forum topics ... in a forum lol

These CSS errors is why people that developed HTML in the late 1980s, early 1990s, declined the idea of using CSS. Errors like this have always existed when CSS is used for websites. They happen because CSS was used.

CSS is a printing language that was developed in the 1970s to control how text and objects were printed on paper. That's why these errors happen when CSS is used for websites.
The fix used to be not using CSS. Unfortunately people have been determined to make screens act like paper (things they're not and will never be) and CSS is now required to design a website.

Why'd they do that? Good question. CSS should have remained a tried and trashed idea IMO. Computer screens aren't a piece of paper.

micky1p00 · April 2022

peppa#4404 said:

darthpotater said:
Now they fixed the CSS but is curious that you cant see the forum topics ... in a forum lol

These CSS errors is why people that developed HTML in the late 1980s, early 1990s, declined the idea of using CSS. Errors like this have always existed when CSS is used for websites. They happen because CSS was used.

CSS is a printing language that was developed in the 1970s to control how text and objects were printed on paper. That's why these errors happen when CSS is used for websites.
The fix used to be not using CSS. Unfortunately people have been determined to make screens act like paper (things they're not and will never be) and CSS is now required to design a website.

Why'd they do that? Good question. CSS should have remained a tried and trashed idea IMO. Computer screens aren't a piece of paper.

Hmm you mean the CSS that was first drafted in 1994? Who's creator, Håkon Wium Lie, was born only at 1965?

plasticbat · April 2022

peppa#4404 said:

darthpotater said:
Now they fixed the CSS but is curious that you cant see the forum topics ... in a forum lol

These CSS errors is why people that developed HTML in the late 1980s, early 1990s, declined the idea of using CSS. Errors like this have always existed when CSS is used for websites. They happen because CSS was used.

CSS is a printing language that was developed in the 1970s to control how text and objects were printed on paper. That's why these errors happen when CSS is used for websites.
The fix used to be not using CSS. Unfortunately people have been determined to make screens act like paper (things they're not and will never be) and CSS is now required to design a website.

Why'd they do that? Good question. CSS should have remained a tried and trashed idea IMO. Computer screens aren't a piece of paper.

I think may be you are talking about postscript, nroff, troff, etc and not CSS.

peppa · May 2022

I'm fully aware of what I'm talking about: Cascading Style Sheets.
I did not make any mistakes in what I said.

Scripts fix the CSS errors shared in the screen shots in this thread. If web developing languages were used, which CSS was therefore still is not designed to be, scripts to fix it's errors aren't necessary.

micky1p00 · May 2022

Sorry, but CSS is a web developing 'language'. It was made specifically for the web and only for the web.
You don't use scripts to fix css errors, you fix the css to not make errors, like every other bug.

CSS is not used for printing. Never was designed for printing, and honestly, its printing usage is cumbersome and the @media attribute is the only semi savior.

CSS or the relevant supersets like SASS (SCSS) which transpiled into CSS are the correct way to do the presentation layer and in practice the only way since that's what the browser DOM uses. (With non dom exceptions like wgl, svg, canvas and so on, but all those are not html and or specific elements).

I don't know what you mean by web developing languages, but modern browsers know mainly 3 things, HTML, CSS, and JS. (There is more, much more to a web browser, like WebAssembly and other things I've mentioned but the base is those 3).

froger · May 2022

Well, it may not look too appealing, but at least it works on mobile. (I know it's broken)

fns2005 · June 2022

Today it looks like the forums reverted to how they were with CSS fixed, but unable to read forum topics. I'll just have to keep rotating my phone to read them lol.

froger · June 2022

Maybe it will be working correctly by Christmas.

micky1p00 · June 2022

froger#9967 said:
Maybe it will be working correctly by Christmas.

Of what year?

froger · November 2022

Figured I'd bump this.
It has been a year and viewing the forums still isn't right.

Difficulty Viewing Forum on Mobile Phone

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