Unable to scroll on some pages?

PaulD · Jan 18, 2008

I recently stayed at a hotel with wired internet and during my stay, I was unable to get all CT pages to scroll. The top page listing all forums would scroll but when I went to a specific forum or any specific topic, the page would not scroll and I was locked into that view. If I was locked into a non scrolling page, the "back" function also failed to work.

However, other web sites would work just fine. Only happened on CT. I stayed their a week and it never did change.

Is there some design characteristics of CT that would cause that or is there some browser setting in IE6 that might cause that?

electron · Jan 18, 2008

I can't think of anything, especially since I am still using the default theme. Next time this happens, try to take a screenshot. Maybe the page didn't finish loading.

PaulD · Jan 18, 2008

Not sure a screenshot would help. The page looks OK other than the scroll bar on right side is missing. Also, I can click on any link that is visable and it opens the new page OK except that the new page has the same problem.

This is the only location (hotel) I have ever experienced this situation and I suspect it is somehow tied to how they manage their network service to each room. The confusing point for me is that I did not experienced this non-scrolling situation on any other web site. However, I have not tried any other forum that might use the same software package that you do. It may be tied to something in how the software operates. I will try that tonight when I get back to the hotel and see what happens.

If I do not report back tonight, it means I cannot scroll to this page but I will let you know what happens as soon as I get to another site where scrolling works.

electron · Jan 18, 2008

I can think of 2 suggestions:

1) Try the Lo-Fi version
2) Click somewhere in the browser window, and see if you can scroll with the arrow keys. The only thing I can think of is that they have some sort of proxy that cleans up complicated javascript for security issues, and is corrupting the JS code.
3) Try saving the source (View Source function) and see what the last few lines are of that text file.

Good luck!

PaulD · Jan 19, 2008

The regular site locked as usual while I was at the hotel but the LoFi verson worked OK. However, I could not find any way to submit a response via LoFi so I had to wait until I got home to respond.

While at the hotel, I got a copy of the source view.....see below if you are interested. However, I think the issue is some disconnect between the hotel web access process and the forum software you are using. I played around with other web forums to see if I could duplicate the problem but I did not have any problems until I hit on carforums.com. The software they are using appears to be the same that you are using and it had the same problem.

I am not going to worry about it any further but I thought you might be interested in case it crops up again somewhere. You may want to ask your software source if they have any problems reported along these lines from anyone else.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<title>http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showforum=8</title>
</head>

<frameset rows="1,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="0">
<frame name="top" scrolling="NO" src="http://65.208.79.2//std/simsv2/top1x1.php">
<frame name="main" scrolling="YES" src="http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showforum=8">
</frameset>
<noframes><body>
Frames are required, for this page to display correctly.
<a href="http://65.208.79.2/superclick/noiframes.php?url=http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showforum=8">Click here to continue to the requested page</a>
</body></noframes></html>

Unable to scroll on some pages?

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