I admit this is a mix of an FYI and a highlight of a feature/display limitation, because I am not sure if it affects many users here. I would be curious to know if others on smaller displays are experiencing a similar thing, though.
I recently got a new laptop, a 14" Acer Swift 3 (so I still can't play WQ, haha). It's running Windows 10. On this smaller sized laptop, the default text scaling is 150% (System > Display > Scale and Layout > Change the size of text, apps, and other items). My web browser is Edge, font size there is set to 100%.
Somehow, the WQ forum is the only place where these settings seem to have adverse affects. Here is what the 150% Windows setting does to some topic's cells:
Switching the Windows setting to 100% resolves the problem, at the expense of 50% smaller font:
So probably not much that can be done other than to "suck it up" and change settings on my end, but wanted to share in case anyone else was having a similar issue. I suppose phpBB coding might be what causes the offending text to overlap rather than wrap and begin a new line?
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Might this be an issue with your Edge browser? (Well, not the only issue - obviously if it’s just WolfQuest then it’s involved at some point, but I wonder if changing your browser can alleviate some of the issues.) I have a 13” inch Sager as my personal laptop and I even believe my Mac laptop is the same size. Things actually look a bit different on the Mac (everything is slightly bigger/not resized properly?), but on my Sager everything looks good. I use Firefox on my Sager and Chrome on my Mac.
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That's true, I should try another browser just to see. Now that I think about it, my phone is way smaller and I don't have any problems reading on it using Chrome. I'll try Chrome on my laptop later and report back!
EDIT: Quick follow up: while I did not end up testing a different web browser at the time (I'm a little too obsessed about having extra programs; think I have some PTSD from an older bricked laptop lol), I just now noticed that the issue appears to have resolved with no action on my end... so some update to Edge, Windows, or the forum has corrected the problem since I first posted. Yay for easy fixes!
EDIT: Quick follow up: while I did not end up testing a different web browser at the time (I'm a little too obsessed about having extra programs; think I have some PTSD from an older bricked laptop lol), I just now noticed that the issue appears to have resolved with no action on my end... so some update to Edge, Windows, or the forum has corrected the problem since I first posted. Yay for easy fixes!
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Re: Smaller screens can adversely alter forum's appearance
Good to hear - I'm merging your posts for now since I don't think we've changed our double-post/bumping rule yet. (I usually just delete, add new information and repost to "bump" the topic, if that helps.)
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