Bye Bye Best Buy, the sell off starts ...

"After conducting a thorough strategic review and based upon the outcome
of our employee consultation, we intend to cease retail trading at our
Best Buy UK branded stores & website by the 15th January 2012. "

http://www.bestbuy.co.uk/customernotice.aspx

&

"A private investment firm have acquired our stocks and will now be
selling this stock from Monday.... "

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/best...30-off-1070921

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On a slight aside, what a crap web-page - it's fixed width text
(text should flow to fit itself into the available browser window
width) and there aren't even scroll bars so one can read the right
hand edge!

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:37:56 +0000, Adrian C
wrote:

http://www.bestbuy.co.uk/customernotice.aspx
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:20:28 +0000, Java Jive
wrote:

On a slight aside, what a crap web-page - it's fixed width text
(text should flow to fit itself into the available browser window
width) and there aren't even scroll bars so one can read the right
hand edge!

Yes.

Possible workarounds for people who cannot see the whole of each line.

1. Use the brower's Zoom or Text size facility to make the text smaller.
or
2. Use Print Preview (which wraps lines to fit the page).

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Java Jive wrote:

On a slight aside, what a crap web-page - it's fixed width text
(text should flow to fit itself into the available browser window
width) and there aren't even scroll bars so one can read the right
hand edge!

That's funny, it works fine for me. There are minimum and maximum text
widths, but they are a long way apart and the text flows fine for me
when I resize the page horizontally. Also, if I go below the minimum
text width, a scroll bar appears.

Or have I misunderstood?

Opera 11.52 on W7.

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I don't pretend to explain it; all I can say is this:
http://www.macfh.co.uk/PrivTest/WorstWeb.jpg

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:59:21 GMT, Steve Thackery
wrote:

Java Jive wrote:

On a slight aside, what a crap web-page - it's fixed width text
(text should flow to fit itself into the available browser window
width) and there aren't even scroll bars so one can read the right
hand edge!

That's funny, it works fine for me.
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Java Jive wrote:

I don't pretend to explain it; all I can say is this:
http://www.macfh.co.uk/PrivTest/WorstWeb.jpg

Ooops, sorry, I was looking at the other page.

I think they must have changed it since you posted that, though. I've
just looked and it's now black text on a white background. Although
the text doesn't wrap (as you say) I do get horizontal and vertical
scroll bars.

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I doubt it.

My desktop/system colour scheme is my own customisation of 'Rainy
Day'. The differences are that the window edges are 3 pixels thick so
that one has a realistic chance of grabbing them with the average
mouse, and white text on a black background because it's easier on the
eyes when working long hours at a stretch. This was particularly so
in the days of CRT monitors, but I still prefer it even with LCDs.

So many webpages set their own colours wrong that I just force all
pages to my desktop colours of white text on a black background.

They either set the pen/foreground colour to black, but forget to set
the paper/background colour which then defaults to my system colour of
black, resulting on black on black, or vice versa, which results in
white on white. The other maddening thing they do is fail to
differentiate between links you've visited and those you haven't.

Nobody TESTS anything properly any more. Even critical programs get
it wrong, here's my Avast AV settings page - I complained about it
about two years ago, but as you can see it's still the same:
http://www.macfh.co.uk/PrivTest/Avast.jpg

I've deliberately left the Administrator account with a different
colour scheme, it's similarly adapted from 'Red Brick' so that the red
desktop colour reminds me that I'm administrating and should return to
user mode when finished, but I've left it as black on white, so that I
can administer the machine safely.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:19:23 GMT, Steve Thackery
wrote:

I think they must have changed it since you posted that, though. I've
just looked and it's now black text on a white background. Although
the text doesn't wrap (as you say) I do get horizontal and vertical
scroll bars.
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No need to worry, have no intention of looking at it in any case.
Seems to me this company have seriously miscalculated when they bought
their stock.

Brian

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:20:28 +0000, Java Jive
wrote:

On a slight aside, what a crap web-page - it's fixed width text
(text should flow to fit itself into the available browser window
width) and there aren't even scroll bars so one can read the right
hand edge!

Yes.

Possible workarounds for people who cannot see the whole of each line.

1. Use the brower's Zoom or Text size facility to make the text smaller.
or
2. Use Print Preview (which wraps lines to fit the page).

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:20:28 UTC, Java Jive
wrote:

On a slight aside, what a crap web-page - it's fixed width text
(text should flow to fit itself into the available browser window
width) and there aren't even scroll bars so one can read the right
hand edge!


The inevitable result of using a point and grunt web authoring tool.
Not found one yet that allows other than fixed width. Compounded by
the general belief that HTML is a publishing language rather than a
mark up language :-(

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On 30/11/2011 03:44, Brian Gaff wrote:
No need to worry, have no intention of looking at it in any case.
Seems to me this company have seriously miscalculated when they bought
their stock.

You are aware that this is Carphone Warehouse? Best Buy in the States
is run entirely differently - if anything, CPW misunderstood the market
- to be beaten by DSG is simply embarassing.

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