Opera browser and ChinesePod
h4rrydog
November 10, 2007, 02:50 PM posted in General DiscussionI've had to switch for the page zoom capabilities of Opera (sometimes the text is too small for me to read), and it works great for most things in ChinesePod (I even got traditional characters to work in Opera). But the lesson exercises don't show up correctly - or rather, they appear in a small box that isn't sized correctly and cuts off the words after the 3rd or 4th exercise problem.
Furthermore, they don't zoom at all with the opera zoom (unlike other flash apps on other websites like YouTube, etc.). Has anybody else run into this problem and worked out a solution?
Cheers!
h4rrydog
November 11, 2007, 11:24 AMThe increase zoom function in Opera 9.24 (Windows XP, SP2) works well with most of ChinesePod. But the flash exercises don't scale I think because all the exercise text is inside the flash app and is not html text. Although other flash apps like the dialogue audio buttons after each line on the dialogue page scale correctly in Opera. The really wierd thing is that even at the default zoom, the stage size for the exercises flash app is not set correctly in Opera, resulting in the text being truncated after the 4th line or so. This does not seem to be a problem when viewed in IE, but the zoom function in IE is pretty rubbish (and the text is too small for me to read comforatably on this screen - my laptop which I normally use when working with ChinesePod is sick). Can anyone help?
eileen
November 12, 2007, 01:36 PMHi h4rrydog, So sorry I can't help you out as I am not familiar with the Opera browser. :-(
mrdtait
November 10, 2007, 03:00 PMWhich version of Opera are you using and on which Operating System? Have you tried using the Beta? (http://snapshot.opera.com/) Personally I use Safari on Leopard and have on my toolbar the buttons to increase and decrease text size so perhaps if you found the buttons for increasing/decreasing text size in Opera it would help?