16Feb/1030
Off Topic: Display Problems
by Jeff
UPDATE: And we are back to the middle, thanks everyone!
We'll get you back to your regularly scheduled explanations in a second, but just wanted to see if anyone is having display problems with the site.
i.e. - is the content showing on the far right?
If you are having trouble, please fire your browser and version into the comments.
Many apologies if it is not looking right for you and we are currently trying to get it fixed, so hopefully you will not see that much longer.
February 16th, 2010
Yes, exactly how you are describing the problem, content showing on the far right.
Browser: Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 Enterprose 64-bit: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Seems to work fine with Chrome though.
February 16th, 2010
I’m on OS X 10.6.2.
Displays fine in:
Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10)
Google Chrome 5.0.307.7 beta
Looks wonky in:
Firefox 3.6 (Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6)
For further reference: http://browsershots.org
February 16th, 2010
Yes, the content is on the far right, forcing the horizontal bar to show. The menu is appearing below the comment box on the left, inside the white area.
I’m using Windows 7 and Firefox 3.6
February 16th, 2010
Same here with FF 3.6 on Win7 and Linux…
February 16th, 2010
Looks fabulous to me (dead center) on Win XP and IE (8 at home, 7 at work).
February 16th, 2010
Firefox 3.6 on Win XP
February 16th, 2010
Firefox 3.6… Mac OS 10.6
February 16th, 2010
Firefox 3.6 OSX and Windows. It’s ok with Chrome, Safari on both platform.
February 16th, 2010
Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP SP3
February 16th, 2010
Firefox 3.6, windows xp; normally read in google reader, where it looks just fine
February 16th, 2010
not fine with firefox 3.6, windows 7. everything’s on the far right, as you said.
February 16th, 2010
Win 7 -x64
far right in Firefox 3.6, but fine in Chrome 4.0
February 16th, 2010
Firefox 3.6 on (Arch) Linux
UserAgent: “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100207 Namoroka/3.6″
(Namoroka is just generic-brand Firefox: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox)
February 16th, 2010
That linkified wrong: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox
Also, I should mention that I am having the far-right problem
February 16th, 2010
Looks fine in Google Chrome but in Firefox 3.6 it’s all wonky.
February 17th, 2010
Windows 7, Google Chrome is fine, but Firefox 3.6 has the far right problem
February 17th, 2010
Having problems on: Firefox 3.6, Ubuntu Linux, Eee PC 1000HE
However, on the same system, Google Chrome Beta for Ubuntu works perfectly with the site.
February 17th, 2010
Display looks wrong in FF 3.6 and FF 3.5.x. I fixed the issue locally for me using Stylish like this:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain(”explainxkcd.com”) {
#content-body, x:-moz-any-link, x:default, .content-sidebar {
float: left !important;
display: inline !important;
}
}
Hope this helps.
February 17th, 2010
Well. . . . it looks like I have the evidence I need that Firefox sucks.
February 18th, 2010
Wrong with Firefox 3.6 but fine with Chrome 4 and IE 7. All three on XP. Seems to be broken with all versions of Firefox 3.6 an all OSes but compatible with everything else including Firefox 3.5 and older based on the above comments and my experience viewing this site in Firefox 3.5. Either Firefox 3.6 has a bug or it implemented something that broke the layout of this site. I think the latter is likely since I have not experienced this problem elsewhere.
February 19th, 2010
Firefox version 3.6, Windows XP SP2
February 19th, 2010
NO problems with Firefox 3.5.7/8 on WXP SP2, BenBE is wrong on this.
http://browsershots.org/http://www.explainxkcd.com/ seems to confirm that only Fx 3.6 is buggy.
February 21st, 2010
Firefox 3.6, Windows 7 32bit
February 22nd, 2010
No problems with Firefox 3.0.18 Ubuntu 8.10 Linux 2.6.24-26-generic
February 22nd, 2010
Content is far to right. Firefox 3.6 @ Kubuntu 9.04.
If you want to do a layout with side menu do something like this:
Should work in all of the browser, might need adding ‘position: relative’ for all sup-divs of those two in IE6 or 7 ‘browsers’.
February 22nd, 2010
I’ve put some HTML code in prev comment, but it seems that the comment system cut it out. Well, I just tried to help…
February 23rd, 2010
Firefox 3.6 on openSUSE 11.2.
February 24th, 2010
Firefox 3.6, Windows 7 and the problem is display: inline-block for #content-body
June 25th, 2011
windows xp way too far right on chrome no virtical control
randy
February 6th, 2012
I’m not able to see the months on the archives, or the titles on the actual post.
Internet Explorer 8