mlb.com

[jim]

I'm using Firefox with Linux. Whenever I go to a page, all of the main content is WAAAAAYYYY over on the right. You have to scroll over, when the page initially loads all you see is a white blank page. I kept waiting for it to load and then realized that it had loaded, and noticed the scrollbar on the bottom and then moved it to the right. I get the same thing on gameday.

Anyone else see this?

Also, how about text at the bottom/top/sides of borders getting chopped off or overlaid? Anyone else see that?

In general, I'd have to say the new and revamped mlb.com is a giant pile of steaming cow dung. It's borderline unusable for me. I'm not talking about web pages that I just don't like the layout - I sometimes can't get to or read the information, links don't always work, etc...

edit - oh this is special. I just went to mlb.com, and you know where they have the day's games. I can sort of see the last game - Tex vs Sea although the top part of that is cut off. Everything else is a big, blank white box that cuts into half of the picture on the right of what looks like a fence with flowers and a bunch of retired numbers. I can't tell for sure because the white box is cutting it off, but on the bottom is says something about the Yankees.

[G. Keenan]

I think this might be a Linux thing Jim.

[jim]

I think this might be a Linux thing Jim.

So the fact that no other websites even come close to being this mucked up wouldn't make it an mlb.com thing?

[ThreeAces]

Works fine for me.

[G. Keenan]

I think this might be a Linux thing Jim.

So the fact that no other websites even come close to being this mucked up wouldn't make it an mlb.com thing?

I don't know. Maybe mlb.com makes no effort to accommodate Linux? In truth I have no idea how that sort of thing works.

[New Pagodi]

How could it be a Linux thing. I thought Firefox was based on the Gecko/Xul layout engine that basically took HTML code and turned it into a bitmap to be stuck into the web browser. I would think the whole HTML -> Bitmap process should be platform independent.

Speaking of which, I think a while ago someone had a rant about opensource software. I'd like to add Gecko/Xul to that rant.

[jim]

How could it be a Linux thing. I thought Firefox was based on the Gecko/Xul layout engine that basically took HTML code and turned it into a bitmap to be stuck into the web browser. I would think the whole HTML -> Bitmap process should be platform independent.

Speaking of which, I think a while ago someone had a rant about opensource software. I'd like to add Gecko/Xul to that rant.

It's not a Linux thing. It's probably written to work mostly with IE, and IE doesn't follow standards worth squat, so you get this nonsense.

Hungary Jack used the car analogy with Microsoft before, saying that cars would be stranded right and left on the road. I'll add to that - those stranded cars would also have 3 wheels, the steering wheel in the center of the third seat, and the fuel/speed gauges would all be bass ackward.

And then they would shrug their shoulders when someone suggested that the car was built funny - "works for us" is what they would say. And that would be that.

[Michael]

Try this:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/homepage/narrowband.jsp

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Working fine for me using the Firefox 3 Beta on Ubuntu.

[jim]

You know the little baseball diamond icon on the scoreboard that takes you to the gameday? Nothing. Click it and nothing happens.

ZERO other problems with espn etc...