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Wed, 21 May 2008, 10:33am #1
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Not to rub it in, or anything, but have you noticed the Navigation tabs are kinda goofy? They seem to be geeked up since you made the changes to fix the reminders.


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Wed, 21 May 2008, 11:19am #2
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Do a hard refresh and see if that helps? If not, what browser are you using, and can you post a screenshot? Things look fine to me.

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Wed, 21 May 2008, 11:39am #3
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I run Firefox.
(version 2.0.0.14 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client 5.1)

I'm not sure how to do a 'hard' refresh (I'll figure it out), but I emptied my Cache directory and it still shows weird.

Here's a screenshot:

http://eldorado.almosteffortless.com/files/irken-Screenshot-1.png

Let me know if I can gather any more info to help with this


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Wed, 21 May 2008, 12:27pm #4
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Hmm... I can look into it, but it's going to be hard to test. Do you happen to know anything about CSS?

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Wed, 21 May 2008, 12:48pm #5
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a bit ... but I'm still learning.


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Wed, 21 May 2008, 2:14pm #6
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Ok.

It turns out, Firefox calls it "Reload Override Cache" and it's mapped to: CTRL-SHIFT-R or CTRL-F5.

I have done this and it still looks the same (as the above screenshot).

What can my (n00b) knowledge of CSS do to help this problem? Perhaps in the process I will learn some more about CSS.


Zim wrote:

Invader’s blood marches through my veins like giant, radioactive rubber pants! The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!

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Wed, 21 May 2008, 2:17pm #7
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Oh, and you're absolutely right. When I load this page from my Windows laptop here at work (with IE7), the nav-tabs look correct.

When I get home I'll check it with Firefox on my Windows box at home to see if this problem is only Linux (or, even, Red Hat specific, since I also have an Ubuntu laptop at home), or maybe firefox related.

Any tips/clues?


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Wed, 21 May 2008, 2:33pm #8
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It could be something to do with your font size... In any case, though, this clearly needs to be fixed up.

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Wed, 21 May 2008, 2:43pm #9
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When I tell Firefox to ignore the web pages' fonts and instead explicitly tell it what font I want for all pages, the problem goes away.


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Wed, 21 May 2008, 3:07pm #10
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I tried removing my copy of firefox, including completely destroying my home directory's .mozilla/firefox directory, and re-installing (in case I had introduced some strange behavior with any settings I changed, or plugins/addons I'd installed), but no luck.

Still the same problem. Weird.


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Wed, 21 May 2008, 3:09pm #11
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Alright, I hit your site with Konqueror, and everything appears fine. This seems to be a problem with my desktop's (RHEL 5.1) version of Firefox. still weird.


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Wed, 21 May 2008, 3:18pm #12
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Yeah, clearly the CSS needs some work. I'll check it out soon.

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Thu, 22 May 2008, 9:34am #13
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I can confirm that the only browser/situation where I'm experience this problem is my Work Desktop: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, Firefox 2.0.0.14. I'm betting that if I wiped the machine and re-installed from scratch the problem would go away. I wonder if it isn't some wacko custom font I installed on the system or something ages ago. Regardless, it is isolated enough that I don't think it's worth worrying about unless anyone else experiences the same problem.


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Thu, 22 May 2008, 12:05pm #14
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Okee Dokee - thanks for the follow-up.

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