h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi there,

I am joining the h2IQ quiz and followed one of its conversations until I found the following post:

http://www.h2g2.com/ffm51431?Thread=91789&skip=0&show=20#p753650

In that d'Elaphant wonders about the tongue-out-smiley looking like a sun and gives a link. I wanted to follow that link, hoping to see the tongue-out-smiley look like a sun. It didn't work, though!

Instead I got a confused Guide Layout in Alabaster, which is my preferred skin. The window looked like the general h2i2-frame (header, buttons on top and bottom). But the conversation content was now in three parts instead of two (still in Alabaster)! The middle and right parts had the conversation content. The left part of only maybe 80 pixels in width showed the leftmost part of a complete guide layout, including header, buttons on top and bottom and even the copyright link at the end.

Do you experience the same? Is there something wrong with my PC? What should d'Elaphants link be, so that I can see on classic-goo?

Thanks for your consideration.

HollePolle
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1. We've fixed the problem with the tongueout smiley on Goo, so it won't look different - we accidentally put the Alabaster GIF in the Goo folder on the server. Whoops!

2. The only way to view forums in Goo is to change your skin preference to Goo (click on the Preferences button). This is because the frame system doesn't support the skin argument in URLs, so you have to change your preference. It works for everything else except forums...

In other words, the effect you saw is normal - to view different skins properly, you should change your preferences.

Mark