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Big Crotch on a Small Fish

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Jan 10, 2011, 11:33:00 AM1/10/11
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Steve Carroll wrote:
> I'm sure you know the saying... here's what it looks like this time...
>
> Me, to another poster (regarding Snit's web development training
> site):
>
> ".watch it do position shifts when you click the various buttons
> (great "pro" work there, Snit)."
>
> Snit repleis back to me with:
>
> "Can you find a website that is centered that does *not* do that,
> assuming some pages scroll and some do not. LOL!
>
> Poor Steve... so amazingly lost. "

BAM! Snit busted with his insistance that no such fix exists.

> I then began a thread and asked web developers for their opinions
> about Snit's obvious suggestion that there are no sites with pages
> that contain varying length content (scrollable and non-scrollable)
> that don't exhibit position shifting. a thing Snit is unquestionably
> seen above ridiculing me over and calling me "lost" over because he
> obviously beliieves *all* such sites have this problem. To that thread
> ZnU responded with a simple fix and explanatiion (kudos to ZnU for
> offering up both). Here is the solution ZnU posted:
>
> --begin quote--
> This CSS:
> html { ? overflow-y: scroll; ?}
> --end quote--
>
> And here is Snit's reply to ZnU:
>
> "That is what Google does on their home page. It is fairly common.
> But Steve's insinuation that I claimed no sites use this (or other
> options, such as setting the min-height) is flat out wrong.
>
> He is, as is his norm, just trolling."

BAM II! Snit flip flops like a fish out of water.

> Notably, Snit is now whining that I 'insinuatued' he said something
> he's subsequently saying he didn't. But Snit's initial quote at the
> top of this post shows he not only "insinuated" that I wouldn't be
> able to find a site that didn't exhibit the shifting, he called me
> "lost" for believing that I could find one.

Snit outright claimed no such fix existed.


Equally as notable is
> Snit's *subsequent* claim that the fix ZnU provided is "fairly
> common" (and it is). But if Snit truly believed that beforehand then
> why did he 'insinutae' that I'm "lost" for believing I -could-
> "find a website that is centered that does *not* do that..." if the
> fix is so "fairly common"?

As you showed with the sites that do not what Snit thought was inevitable.

> Obviously, Snit's subsequent position makes even less sense than his
> original error. There can be no question that ZnU taught Snit a way to
> fix the problem he unquestionably believed all such sites suffered
> from when he ridiculed me over the idea of finding one that didn't
> suffer from it. Snit's face saving efforts failed. again. and
> miserably. again.
>
> The thread can be viewed here:
>
> <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/browse_thread/
> thread/0cb17b17e8e21a5d/8e50a108c5558606#8e50a108c5558606>

BAM III. Snit busted by his own lies.

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Steve Carroll

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Jan 12, 2011, 9:10:03 AM1/12/11
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On Jan 10, 9:33 am, "Big Crotch on a Small Fish" <BigCrotch@SmallFish>
wrote:

Yet, gluey still pretends that none of it ever happened.

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