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Well, you can zoom, but it's bad. I'll post some screen shots when I have a second. |
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Ok, so here is a page from the Scott 2015 eCatalog:  And here is the page zoomed in:  Note the fuzzy text and the complete lack of a scroll bar on the bottom to move over to the left side of the zoomed page. I'll need to try it on my iPad and see if I can get over to the right side of a zoomed page. Oh, and it wouldn't load in Firefox. Worked fine in Chrome, though. |
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Just confirmed you can scroll over on a tablet. Just not on a PC. Might be able to with a touch screen PC, but I don't have one of those to test with. |
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Just confirmed you can scroll over on a tablet. Just not on a PC. Might be able to with a touch screen PC, but I don't have one of those to test with. I just tested this with the Chrome browser on my Linux desktop PC. When I zoom beyond the size of the window I get a horizontal scroll bar. Terry |
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Well, that's odd. My Chrome Browser on Windows 10 did not get a horizontal scroll bar. I'll have to try Microsoft Edge. I can't even get the catalog to load in Firefox. Just get the spinning sunburt thingie.
I'll boot into Arch and give it a try. But if it works for you, I'm sure it will work for me in Linux. |
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I am running it in an instance of Chrome with no extensions active. I had some peculiarities running with the extensions I normally use so I set up a second identity and don't log in to Google there.
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OK, must have been a glitch. Cause now I get the horizontal scroll bar and it works in Firefox. Still no offline access, though. And that's a deal breaker. |
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Theoretically in an electronic version Scott wouldn't have to worry about space constraints like the print version. Theoretically, therefore, there should be no technical reason that every stamp can't be pictured. I'm not holding my breath for that feature anytime soon, however. |
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Theoretically in an electronic version Scott wouldn't have to worry about space constraints like the print version. And they could build a single database with all information about all stamps and license access to parts cafeteria style. If all you want & need is Farkenstein you only pay for Farkenstein. Terry |
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And they could build a single database with all information about all stamps and license access to parts cafeteria style. If all you want & need is Farkenstein you only pay for Farkenstein.
Terry The Scott Catalogue is like Cable TV. You for it all, including the countries you don't want, in order to fund those countries. The tens of thousands of people that collect Germany buy G, so that the much smaller group of people that collect Ghana still have research done on their stamps. |
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apastuszak: Of course I know the won't do what I suggested as being possible to do. I was expanding on TheArtfulHinger's musing on theoretic possibilities.
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Got an email from Amos yesterday. There is no plan to offer offline access to their eCatalogs. Sigh... |
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A couple years ago, Scott issued a British Commonwealth catalog in ADDITION to the worldwide set. But as with the other products, it didn't sell well They must not have done much publicity, because I don't recall hearing about it. |
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They must not have done much publicity, because I don't recall hearing about it. Well, given that you are an eye on the wall, that's not surprising. You need an ear on the wall. |
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Posted 08/10/2015 12:27 pm
