Question for TehBorken (but others may have a look too)

[Jolly Green Giant]

It's fairly easy to see that the topic titles in the list are each displayed in their own table cell, that's the way the software does it. The topic list is a table with columns and rows which make up for individual cells.

But why is it then that a few topics are grouped together in pairs in a single table cell ? To give an example, "Ooooops..." and "MIT Robot Detects Fake Scientific Papers" share one cell ; and "Shutdown the SOA" and "Post your best songs with meanings" share another one.

Why is this ?

Why, oh why ?

And will I be able to post on DV again ?

[tenkani]

Ooooh, who are you on DV?

I think I may know...

[TehBorken]

  Jolly Green Giant wrote:
But why is it then that a few topics are grouped together in pairs in a single table cell ? To give an example, "Ooooops..." and "MIT Robot Detects Fake Scientific Papers" share one cell ; and "Shutdown the SOA" and "Post your best songs with meanings" share another one.

 I'm not seeing that, so either it's something browser specific or I'm misunderstanding what you're describing. None of the cells I see have more than one topic in them.
 

[Chicklet]

Hmmm.  I'm not seeing that either.  What browser are you using?  And I thought Safari did funny things...

[Jolly Green Giant]

I am using Opera at the moment, and right now this very thread is sharing a cell with the "MIT Robot Detects Fake Scientific Papers" thread, while the "Ooooops..." thread has its own one.

The mystery is absolute.

[Jolly Green Giant]

Darn... right now - that is, after having posted my reply, this thread is paired with \"So...What\'s for lunch?\"

And right now - that is, while writing this and checking the topic list in another tab, I notic it\'s all alone, as it should be.

Looks like it is changing very quickly. Must be a feature of Opera ?

[TehBorken]

 Jolly Green Giant wrote:
Looks like it is changing very quickly. Must be a feature of Opera ?

I don't know, but that'd be my guess. What happens if you use FireFox or (god forbid) IE 6?

[JollyGreen Giant]

TehBorken wrote:
 Jolly Green Giant wrote:
Looks like it is changing very quickly. Must be a feature of Opera

I don't know, but that'd be my guess. What happens if you use FireFox or (god forbid) IE 6?
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I was being facetious, TehBorken.
Of course it's not a feature ! No more than the upside down characters Opera sometimes displays in one line or the other. It's one of those quirks.

And relating to my question: when can I post on DV again - what do you think ?

[TehBorken]

 JollyGreen Giant wrote:
And relating to my question: when can I post on DV again - what do you think ?

 I think I would be the last to know, since I have nothing to do with DV in any way, shape, or form. My only connection to them is that we're in the same hemisphere.
 

[tenkani]

Actually, the owner and admins of DV don't reside on this planet.

But you didn't hear that from me.

[Jolly Green Giant]

tenkani wrote:
Ooooh, who are you on DV?
I think I may know...
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So what do you think ?
I won't reply, I only want to know if you had the right intuition.

[tenkani]

Damn. I knew it when I posted that, but it's slipped my mind.

Can I use a lifeline?

[Jolly Green Giant]

Sure.

[Lise]

My question to TehBorken.............

  Did it hurt, TehBorken? When you fell from Heaven??

[TehBorken]

 Lise wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]My question to TehBorken.............[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"] [/div] Did it hurt, TehBorken? When you fell from Heaven?? [img style="font-style: italic;" src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/24.gif[/img]

Me? I think I was coming from the Other Place; it hurt like hell when they pushed me back up through the pavement.