Author: William Penn
Date: 17:35:13 03/14/04
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On March 14, 2004 at 10:03:51, William Penn wrote: >On March 14, 2004 at 09:24:18, William Penn wrote: > >>When I type and reach the end of the line in the composition window on the >>right, the entire composition window is sometimes shifted one character to the >>left. That hides all of the first column of characters on the left, and causes a >>slider bar to appear at the bottom of the composition window. So if I want to >>see the first column of characters on the left, I must click the slider bar. >>That's a significant annoyance. >> >>However I'm not seeing that glitch in this composition window, for unknown >>reasons. Maybe it only happens when I am replying to a post and include the >>original message in the reply(?). >> >>I recall seeing this same kind of composition window glitch here on this forum >>2-3 years ago, then it went away after awhile. I have no idea about the cause. I >>suspect it has something to do with improper coding of line breaks with >>particular fonts. >>WP > >To test the theory that it requires me to reply to respond to a message which is >included in the reply, this is a further test. Now strangely the composition >window glitch has disappeared. It doesn't happen now. But it was happening for >several days prior. A mystery. I suppose it depends on the weather, or some >other seemingly irrelevant factor. > >The difference now is that, as I'm typing and reach the end of a line, I'm >sometimes seeing a brief shift of the entire composition window to the left, but >it self-corrects quickly and no slider bar appears at the bottom of the window. >So apparently some code is being invoked that is very lazy about being >activated, and occasionally fails to activate. Reason unknown. >WP It's still happening... :( WP
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