Wierdness on MacOS browsers?

Has anybody seen wierd formatting issues on MacOS 10? I've been getting a lot of cases recently where the top header shows fine, but I have to scroll a lot horizontally to read any of the postings. Happens on both Safari and Firefox, and I'm running MacOS 10.3.9. I only notice it on this site, too.

Here are a couple screenshots:

When you first load the page, you get something like this, and you have to scroll across to read the postings, like this.

-- Burvil

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Re: Wierdness on MacOS browsers? by japhy (Canon) on Apr 22, 2006 at 15:43 UTC
It's because you have code-wrapping turned off, and there are enormously long (width-wise) chunks of code. Specifically here. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]
Re^2: Wierdness on MacOS browsers? by chargrill (Parson) on Apr 24, 2006 at 19:25 UTC
Whoopsy :-) /me edits the offending node --chargrill `$,=42;for(34,0,-3,9,-11,11,-17,7,-5){$.=pack'c'=>$,+=$_}for(reverse s +plit//=>$ ){$%++?$ %%2?push@C,$_,$":push@c,$_,$":(push@C,$_,$")&&push@c,$"}$C[$# +C]=$/;($#C >$#c)?($ c=\@C)&&($ C=\@c):($ c=\@c)&&($C=\@C);$%=$\|;for(@$c){print$_^ +$$C[$%++]}` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Wierdness on MacOS browsers? by GrandFather (Saint) on Apr 22, 2006 at 18:36 UTC
This is an on going issue that arises when people post using pre tags and long lines, or long lines without anything the browser feels it can break the line on. There is no reason at all to use pre tags and that can be fixed - consider the node. Sometimes long URLs or similar data crop up in posts and generally can not be wrapped by the browser because there is nothing the browser feels comfortable breaking the "word" on. In most cases that problem can be worked around by putting an occasional space in the string - looks fine visually and now the line can be wrapped. You can /msg the person who posted the objectionable material. If that doesn't do the trick and you feel strongly about it, you can always do a little down voting - doesn't fix the problem, but you may feel better afterwards. :) DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]