It's making me crazy...er.

I had read that people find it more difficult to read text that's too wide

I think we're ALL sorry you read that article... :(

I know that RIClimber likes the horizontal lines (did I see him post that? I think so, but I dunno), but I'm finding that they are distracting.

I don't remember anyone posting about those online, but Amanda didn't much like them either, but when she looked at them on my monitor, she could barely even see them. And when I looked at them on her monitor, they looked like rather dark (and quite annoying) slashes across her screen. They're meant to be pretty subtle but depending on your monitor, they might not be so subtle. I lightened the lines a bit after that, but I'll lighten them some more and see if that helps. (You might have to "refresh" the page to take in the new CSS, though.)

On my monitor, at this point, those lines are all but invisible, but let me know how they look on your monitor now.

-- Ryan

If there's a specific example you have in mind, I can take a look at a screenshot of how it looks to you

Your screenshot at 1350 pixels looks pretty good. Here's what I'm seeing on my screen:
IE10 at 75% IE10 at 100%, which is pretty awful. Maybe this is the look that some of the other people are getting.

I tried Firefox, and it looks much better:
Firefox at 75% Firefox at 100%

Why is there such a big difference? Is there something we need to do on IE to fix it?

Why is there such a big difference? Is there something we need to do on IE to fix it?

Yes, replace IE. Their browser sucks, and it has for a long time. ;o)

I'm glad you showed me those screenshots--I hadn't looked at the most recent changes on IE and YIKES!

I tweaked the code some more so now it should look more-or-less the same on Firefox and IE. (But really, IE sucks. Nobody should be using that antiquated browser anymore.)

I also got rid of the multi-column comments that nobody seemed to like. (That actually fixed the IE problem in your example.)

Happy trails!

-- Ryan

Oh, yeah, that's much better!!

I wouldn't have liked the multi-column comments either, but in my case they were just one LONG continuous row scrolling off the screen, not really columns (not that the panoramic view wasn't interesting...)

Thanks, Ryan!

but in my case they were just one LONG continuous row scrolling off the screen, not really columns

I'd chalk that up to IE being an inferior browser. *shrug* But it was definitely a problem!

-- Ryan

Yes, the lines are much lighter now. Thank you! Still there, but not nearly as annoying.... ;-)

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