Scrolling problems

[brisnat81]

Hi Robert,

There seems to be a change on the website today, where each line shows the line as a selection when you mouse over it.

When using the scroll wheel on my mouse it takes twice as long to scroll.

The first click moves the page, the second click moves the selector bar, third click moves the page, the fourth click moves the selector bar. Standard windows mouse drivers here, no special config. Windows 7 and IE8

Is there anything that can be done

Cheers

Nathan

 

[aeoliandave]

Getting the same thing here.

The highlighting is distracting and unnecessary. If your mouse does not get placed at the top before you start scrolling down it jams on the way back up with subsequent scrolling.

Not liking it. Not one bit...

Dave

 

[arbilab]

Mouse off the index page then use the arrow key.

I can jump into the index anywhere (from the scrollbar) and the highlighting works properly. W98, FF2.

 

[foraloysius]

I sometimes click on a page to get the window active, so I can scroll down with the mouse wheel. Because the whole line is now clickable this takes me into a thread while I didn't intend to. A little annoying. I prefer the system we had.

 

[mattl]

Robert's been busy...

Looks Like Robert has been tinkering with something other then classic machines.

 

Not sure I like the change, to me it seems distracting, never had a problem identifying where I was on the page.

 

Edit:

 

I take that back after roaming the site I find the new highlighting down right annoying.....  Perhaps if the difference in color was toned down a bit- or a lot- it would not be so distracting.

 

[arbilab]

I have seldom used the mouse wheel. Clicks when you didn't mean it to. I have an RC transmitter that does that. But the wheel is only for programming, not everyday use.

The change doesn't upset me.

 

[DADoES]

It also causes an effect that ctrl-click doesn't work properly in Firefox. Ctrl-click is to open a link in a new tab. Now the link opens in BOTH the parent tab and a new tab. Click of the mouse wheel also opens in a new tab, which that continues to work correctly ... but my mouse wheel clicker tends to be flaky so I also use the ctrl-click method.

 

[retro-man]

no problems here it just highlights the thread your going over. I like it actually.
Jon

 

[Unimatic1140]

Thanks Guys for letting me know. I've had this feature on Friends and Husbands since its inception and I've never had anyone say it didn't work properly. I've been wanting to bring that feature here for a while because it makes the navigation of the index page easier to read and at least in my opinion.

I've tried it on seven different computers and cannot replicate the mouse wheel speed issues that Nathan is having or the "jam" issue that Dave report. This might related to the brand or type of mouse.

What I'll do then is come up with a way of turning the new scroll highlighting off. I'll work on that today if I get time.

 

[foraloysius]

The difference with Friends and Husbands is that the whole site is less wide on my screen (1600 x 900). This site however fils up the whole width of the screen.

 

[appnut]

I'm having no difficulties and I love the highlighting!!

 

[Unimatic1140]

The difference with Friends and Husbands is that the whole site is less wide on my screen (1600 x 900). This site however fils up the whole width of the screen.

Hey Louis, I realize that does make a difference. I would like to eventually do the same thing here and modernize the site a bit. Centering the page and controlling the maximum page width is what most modern websites do these days. A lot of this site is still written like its 2004 which I would like to update slowly but surely over time.

 

[foraloysius]

Centering the page would definitely be a help. I can live with the changes though, it's not a drama. lol

 

[mattl]

Interesting, this morning on my laptop the color gradient change is not too annoying, certainly I could live with that, not that I have a choice.  However last night on my main computer  the highlighted color was almost neon bright.  I guess different displays react differently.

 

This might motivate me to do a real proper setup on my 23" Sammy monitor I got last year, I've been wanting to set the color temp and try to calibrate the gamma as best I can without the proper tools.  Only method I have is to run Avia on my pro calibrated PDP and eyeball the secondary display to match as closely as possible.  A bit of a pain so I have not done it...

 

[perc-o-prince]

Robert,

I don't know if this will help, but I tried scrolling slowly and here's what happens:

I scroll down one click and the page scrolls down one thread, but the highlight stays on the thread above. I scroll down another click, and the page sits still but the highlight moves down one thread.

Chuck

 

[DADoES]

 
Chuck and Robert,

I see that effect of the highlight lagging behind in IE, both 8 and 9. Does not happen in Firefox (latest 7.01).

Interestingly, scrolling is *slow* and the highlight lags two posts behind in IE9 on my new Dell (2.80 GHz AMD Phenom II X6 1055T processor, 8 GB RAM, 64-bit Win7).

IE8 scrolling is fast and the highlight lags one post behind on a 6-years-old 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ with 3 GB RAM running WinXP. Same on a Toshiba laptop (Pentium 4 3.33 GHz, 1 MB RAM shared with video [896 MB available], WinXP).

Firefox 7.01 scrolling and highlight movement is good on all three systems, but there's the ctrl-click issue I mentioned previously (appears to be a script effect, happens only when logged-in).

 

[Unimatic1140]

OK thanks guys. I added a check box at the top that allows you to turn off the scroll highlighting if it's not working for you or annoying, at least until all the bugs are out.

I cannot replicate the IE lag that some describe. I've tried it a four different computers, IE6 7 8 and 9, all work just fine.   Typical Internet Explorer behavior, so many developers are so glad that IE market share continues to drop.  I'll keep looking for a system that it does that on.  The way programming goes generally if you can't see it do it, you can't fix it.

Question for those seeing the lag, do you also see the same lag on this Friends and Husbands page????

 

[mrb627]

IE8

Works just find for me under IE8.

Malcolm

 

[vacbear58]

Working fine here too

No problems here at all Robert, with each click on the wheel the highlighting is moving down in line with the threads

I treated meyself to a new and pretty well specified PC about a month ago, so maybe that makes a difference

Al