Whats this

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:03 am

Whats this?

The side columns of the webpage comes below the body.
It happened all of a sudden. Tried refreshing, still like this.
Cleared cache and cookies. I use IE.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:50 am

It will go away after a while... someone felt the need to name their AMV

TheBegganing,Rebith,AndEnd,TribuitToFusion2

Without any spaces and it stretches the New AMV on the block box in IE...

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:19 am

Wow, that's the... best... title I've seen in a long while

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:04 am

Oh ok thanks Corran.

Wow, that's the... best... title I've seen in a long while

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:51 am

Oh, great, as soon as that one gets pushed off the list, there's another stretcher that comes along.

Maybe some formatting is required to prevent that from occuring in the future.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:35 pm

Something has to be done to these videos and usernames with no_spaces_between_words.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:10 pm

I_really_wonder_what_makes_people_think_this_is_cool...

Isn't_there_a_way_to_at_least_limit_the_
number_of_characters_per_line? I_mean,_that_would_be_a_reasonable_solution. That_or_counting_underscores/brackets/slashes/
dashes_as_spaces_or_something. I'd_assume_it's_not_complicated_to_code,_but_
then_what_do_I_know?

[edit/derobert: Or derobert going and inserting line endings so he can read the page. One or the other.]

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:21 pm

A lot of places you can upload thing don't allow names with spaces, so perhaps a note emphasising that you can do this?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:36 pm

The issue isn't about uploading... its about people entering the video title in the database like that. Allowing line breaks after underscores or dashes or slashes, and also before before the first capital letter that follows a lowercase letter, would all be great and probably fix the majority of issues. But there could still be a problem if someone enters a title like SSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLGGGGGGGGGGGGGLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO

A character limit wouldn't be a good way of handling it, but perhaps there could be a limit at which a word just got truncated (only on the new vid on the block section). This still isn't a good way of handling it because it creates limitations for new skins, but it sounds like the best solution maybe.

YouTube · Post by **derobert** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:43 am

Zarxrax wrote:This still isn't a good way of handling it because it creates limitations for new skins, but it sounds like the best solution maybe.

CSS allows you to set (1) no-wrap; (2) fixed width; (3) clip if it goes over the width. This should be fixable in the site CSS.