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Opera Doesn't Load This Page Properly, Why ?

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DS

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Nov 21, 2009, 1:26:08 PM11/21/09
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Opera 9 and 10 don't seem able to show the following page properly
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer everything on the page is scrunched up.

The iplayer site is visited by many thousands of people each day and its a
pity that Opera can't show it properly, unless of course its my set up. Can
you check please ?

With each new major build of Opera I give the program a chance but get
frustrated when I see that other browsers (IE7 and Firefox 3) can load the
page.

MW


Ed Jay

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Nov 21, 2009, 1:57:04 PM11/21/09
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DS wrote:

I can't duplicate your issue. Opera 10.10/1890 WXP-Pro/SP3.

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tagboy

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Nov 21, 2009, 2:02:02 PM11/21/09
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Works fine here 10.01 - 1844 XP SP3
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DS

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Nov 21, 2009, 2:06:45 PM11/21/09
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"> I can't duplicate your issue. Opera 10.10/1890 WXP-Pro/SP3.
>
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> Ed Jay (remove 'M' to reply by email)

OP HERE
I have solved the problem.
I had "fit to width" enabled by default, I find this Opera function usually
very useful....... I thought after reading your post that I would try and
disable FTW and see what happens. The page now loads perfectly.

MW


Eik

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Nov 21, 2009, 2:19:20 PM11/21/09
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:26:08 -0000, DS <not_...@here.com> wrote:

> Opera 9 and 10 don't seem able to show the following page properly
> www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer everything on the page is scrunched up.

You've probably put Opera into Fit-to-Width mode. Parts of the iPlayer
work by clipping 6000px-wide elements (much wider than any home computer
screen) and using Javascript to scroll them left and right within a
'letterbox' on your screen. Applying fit-to-width on pages like this will
most likely break them, as Opera has no way of knowing those overly wide
elements are deliberate.

OPERA

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Nov 22, 2009, 12:52:09 PM11/22/09
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> I have solved the problem.
> I had "fit to width" enabled by default, I find this Opera function
> usually very useful....... I thought after reading your post that I would
> try and disable FTW and see what happens. The page now loads perfectly.

Control_F11 One of the most useful shortcuts every.

Swifty

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Nov 22, 2009, 1:39:02 PM11/22/09
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Eik wrote:
> You've probably put Opera into Fit-to-Width mode. Parts of the iPlayer
> work by clipping 6000px-wide elements (much wider than any home computer
> screen) and using Javascript to scroll them left and right within a
> 'letterbox' on your screen. Applying fit-to-width on pages like this
> will most likely break them, as Opera has no way of knowing those overly
> wide elements are deliberate.

My not particularly large display has 1920 pixels horizontally. You can
already get double-density displays (at a cost) so that would take us to
3640 pixels on a 24" display. That 6000px is looking to become a
limitation soon.

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