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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Reader Poll: Do Embedded Tweets Run Into Right Margin?

Commenter Bebe says they do, but they don't on my desktop and they don't on my wife's tablet. Does anyone else have a problem?

My guess is that any problem is probably browser related. I use a variety, mostly Chromium or Mozilla based. Display is perfect in all.

21 comments:

  1. Such problems are almost always browser related. Your page is recreated on each computer by the brower software and it's individual settings.

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  2. I am using Mac, Safari. Only the tweets seem to run outside your regular text field.

    I have just copied them into a text edit window to read.

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    1. Suggestions:

      1) Check to see if there's an update available for Safari--that might solve your problem.

      2) Consider installing one of the many Chromium based browsers that are also available for the Mac platform:

      https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium

      https://www.slimjet.com/en/dlpage.php

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  3. Script issue on individual browsers.

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    1. I believe Twitter may have come up with a new script. I don't like it because it doesn't offer as much control, but it displays in all the browsers I've tried. Well, it didn't do well--although didn't run into margin--in Seamonkey, but that's pretty niche.

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    2. Can also be a combination of factors at both ends, obviously. Personally, I'm fairly certain it's the Masters of the Universe conspiring to prevent us from understanding one another and reaching a higher level of enlightenment.

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  4. It does for me on Firefox.

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    1. It runs into the margin on Firefox? My version of Firefox displays perfectly. Perhaps you need an update?

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  5. Mark, W10, Firefox, desktop..yes it runs into margin. No big deal, I just highlight it and read. Browser is latest AFAIK, updated not too long ago.

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    1. Maybe it has to do with the Windoze version. I've been using Linux since '97.

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  6. I don't/haven't experience any issues.

    I'm on a 2-year old Dell laptop running the latest MS operating system and using MS Edge (or whatever their browser is called).

    For some reason my Google sign-in for commenting doesn't show up in Brave (my usual browser), so I read MiH on Edge.

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  7. ok, W10, switch FF to Edge, desktop and format is perfect. Easy peasy.

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  8. On Mac with Chrome I notice the embedded tweet iframe does extend to the entire page width, momentarily, until some subsequent page elements are loaded and force the tweet iframe to become smaller. It's for just a fraction of a second I can see this happen, and don't really care to debug it.
    (I think Safari is bad so I don't use it.)

    The root cause is certainly the Blogger website, and Chrome happens to deal with the problem better than other browsers.

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  9. I don't have any issues now, using Firefox and Win 7.

    I have noticed these kinds of issues in the past on other sites when the resolution or font size is too big in my browser.

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  10. Hopefully some of these comments will help anyone who's having a problem. Typically, I use Falkon for managing the blog--it has a Windows version but not Mac. Otherwise my usual browser is Slimjet. I normally use Firefox only for videos on certain sites. But I experience no problems with any of those.

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  11. Ack! You’re all above my pay grade! I have made an executive decision to not worry about how the few tweets you post look on my page, to continue to copy/paste them into a fresh textedit page, and to keep quiet about them. Your site is brilliant, as are you and the usual suspects who hang out here. I’m happy.

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    1. Happy is good! However ...

      If you want to try installing Google Chrome, here's a page with instructions on how to install on all supported platforms, including Mac. It also explains system requirements if you have an older computer.

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  12. When you imbed Twitter feeds, I have trouble with Firefox and have to open Chrome. Chrome displays the properly. I'm a Windows 10 user.

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    1. I didn't think anyone used W10, or an MS browser. MS doesn't support their desktop software worth a sh*t.

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  13. A have the embedded tweet bleed-over problem on Chrome on mac... but I also run about a dozen different (attempt at some) privacy plugins so when I have website problems they are often related to those.

    I also just use the "copy-pasta into a text editor" trick. -- MR

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    1. OK, thanks for that perspective. It reinforces what I've been trying to communicate, which is that I don't really have control over this--regrettable as that is.

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