Silliest Feature Change (in General)


LumpBot August 26 2005 12:48 PM EDT

bot checks...yes, when I am camping I type these things in lightning fast. The problem is text starts at extreeme left and many times when words start with "i" or "j" or "l" the letter blends into the box sides and I end up retyping them a bunch. It's really annoying too. I know it sounds silly, but I would love it if there was a slight margin space between the box wall and text. =)

AdminShade August 26 2005 12:50 PM EDT

that margin is random :)

Warchild August 26 2005 12:53 PM EDT

Shade I believe spaceman is talking about a margin in the INPUT box (as opposed to the botcheck itself which is what it seems you thought he meant) so that the first letter (esp those he mentioned) can be seen when typing.

LumpBot August 26 2005 12:55 PM EDT

Exactly Warchild, When I input the word and glance to make sure I used the right keys, certain letters blend into the input box so I can't see it.

AdminShade August 26 2005 12:57 PM EDT

ahhh, now i get it. the box where you need to actually type it in. hmmm could be a nice feature :)

LumpBot August 26 2005 12:59 PM EDT

I don't know much about coding, but it seems like a minor fix to start the text a bit indented.

Relic August 26 2005 1:02 PM EDT

I already know what Jonathan is going to say about this request.

AdminJonathan August 26 2005 1:06 PM EDT

bug your browser vendor if you don't like how it renders input elements.

LumpBot August 26 2005 1:09 PM EDT

Blast Mozilla =\

Nixon Jibfest August 26 2005 1:12 PM EDT

Opera Browser rules!

Maelstrom August 26 2005 1:16 PM EDT

Spaceman, maybe you could try wearing glasses? ;)

LumpBot August 26 2005 1:20 PM EDT

That would make me look nerdy! When I spend hours at a time refreshing two pages full of the same text over and over, the last thing I want is to appear nerdy =P

Shark August 26 2005 1:28 PM EDT

It's not easy being cheeesy is it? (V)0O(v)

RedWolf August 26 2005 1:30 PM EDT

i don't even look at what i type half the time :-P if i do happen to type the wrong thing, THEN i pay attention to what i'm typing (which actually doesn't happen too often)

SaintMichael August 26 2005 1:35 PM EDT

I use Safari, but no play-by-play!!

Shark August 26 2005 1:58 PM EDT

the next thing I'm thinking is you have your screen resolution set way small. Of course there is a purpose for that I know but it will ill affect your botcheck page too .And as for me I can always adjust the view on the web page for text but the store pages and the botchecks do not adhere to these settings for me so I have to deal with the smaller text boxes also

LumpBot August 26 2005 2:01 PM EDT

My text isn't that small. It's on normal though my monitor is over-sized. I guess I'm just going to have to deal with it. =\ As for Redwolf, I try to get my entire bot check answered before the picture fully loads. This isn't too hard but sometimes I start typing before the cursor appears in the Input Box. if that happens, I miss the first letter, so I have to watch what I type.

Grim Reaper August 27 2005 3:53 AM EDT

then let's complain about how I(i) and L or should I say l(L) look the same :)

CoolWater August 27 2005 5:41 AM EDT

Space, I think how fast you are typing is irrelevant to camping due to the fact that no one knows when a rare item is going to spawn. It's only relevant when you camp for special ammos when you know it's going to spawn within the next 1-3 mins.
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