No vertical scroll bar?

[ThInKeR]

Hello all,
I am running XP SP2 and I have an isolated problem with IE6 and viaarena.com
when I load the "Forum" (menu bar) a new window opens without a vertical scroll bar?! - same for Mozilla and Firefox.

looking at their source code I am scratching my head...
My old Win98 box opens that window fine including the scroll bar.

What is going on that my box stumbles over that particular code? I don't see this problem anywhere else but viaarena.com.

ideas?

Steve

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Thinker,

The windows XP version of IE handles OpenModalDialog and OpenModelessDialog
differently to the Winx versions. You will notice also that the status bar
is always visible with the location url of the page in the dialog, this
would account for the lack of vertical scroll bar in your samples as the
dialog would have been originally coded to open a window just big enough to
accomodate the body without a status bar.

Regards.

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Thinker,

Yes they are different versions of mshtml.dll (me thinks). Its the way that
MS is handling dialog windows to prevent phishing (display the URL in the
status bar). Although it sounds like your problem is the text size that you
have chosen to view the page in (View>Text Size menu)

It may also be the design of the popup page... Hard wired or relative font
sizeing... and also an omission of the scrollbars switch in the create
window call.

Regards.

 

[ThInKeR]

Thanks for your patronage, Rob!

Hi Thinker,

Yes they are different versions of mshtml.dll (me thinks). Its the
way that MS is handling dialog windows to prevent phishing (display
the URL in the status bar). Although it sounds like your problem is
the text size that you have chosen to view the page in (View>Text
Size menu)

It may also be the design of the popup page... Hard wired or relative
font sizeing... and also an omission of the scrollbars switch in the
create window call.

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