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Janin
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On Mac Firefox, just noticed this morning.
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I'm pretty sure it's new today, and I've had the same font size settings on this computer for months.
People were asking that long names not grow the box, so now the box is set to a fixed width&height and set to "clip" text which flows outside of it. I can't give the best of both worlds ( a box which resizes to large fonts but doesn't stretch when unusually long text appears ). There has to be a tradeoff, and I felt the long usernames were affecting more people than the clipping of large font sizes would.
.alt1 div {height:auto !important;}
.alt2 div {height:auto !important;}
Can you alter the page to clip the usernames before they are printed? I don't know what template engine vbulletin uses, but here's an example of what I mean in Smarty.
I'd rather not because it would result in a loss of fidelity (e.g. if we ever allow search engines in, they would not see the whole name...If you ever try to CTRL-F search for a name on an index page you would need to know to type the fractional part of the name...If you have your font-size set extra small, you would have extra space with a truncated name...etc)