I opened my glitch project, the menus on the left side are jumbled together, I don’t know how to fix them, is it my fault or the site’s fault?
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That’s definitely not your fault. Could you open a ticket at support@glitch.com with the project name? Our team will look into what’s happening.
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It doesn’t happen in a single project, it happens in all projects, there is no problem on the phone, but I get this error on the computer.
This is super helpful, thanks. Yeah, we’ll need to take a deeper look. Sorry about this bug.
What do you think is the reason for this? Is it just me or is it everyone?
I’m not seeing this behavior on my machine (macos 14.6.1; chrome 128.0.6613.85), but I also know that my machine alone is not a representative sample.
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I am using old Win 7 on my computer. I wonder if that is why I have never received such an error. Yesterday there was no such error. Today I opened one and encountered this.
Which browser are you using? (note that Windows 7 reached end-of-life on January 14, 2020, and Internet Explorer reached end-of-life on June 15, 2022 so unless you’re using a modern browser that is still willing to run on Windows 7, this might be a problem that’s simply inherent to using an out of date OS/browser combination)
You can see whether Firefox works. but if not, that’s kind of it - Windows 7 is so old that this might even just be a weird graphics glitch from an out of date driver =(
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There was nothing 2 days ago, for some reason this happened today.
I have a Windows 7 VM, and its IE won’t even load glitch.com because the server responses are too modern for it. The only version of Firefox that’ll work is the old 32 bit ESR version, so with that installed, I can load glitch.com and the editor looks like what you’re showing: as far as I can tell it’s misapplying certain CSS, and unfortunately there isn’t much we can do about that. The target is to make sure things work on all supported operating systems and supported browsers, so this is one of those cases where modern CSS no longer seems to work correctly on discontinued software.
I’ll make a note to see if there’s some more broadly applicable information that we can get out of analysing what 32bit FF on Win7 does, but I don’t want to get any hopes up: it’s entirely possible the conclusion is going to be “if it works properly on current versions of windows with current versions of the various browser available on that platform, there’s nothing to fix”.
If I change from 32bit to 64bit, will this problem be solved?
I tested it on 64 bit Windows 7 so I assume not. You’re unfortunately hitting the part where your OS has been out of date long enough that applications have stopped supporting it so you’re stuck with out of date applications as well as an out of date OS =(
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ChatGPT is not a great way to try to help here: the menu items are Glitch’s own menu items, users can’t “fix” those.
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Based on some debugging, the real problem is that we’re starting to see modern CSS with nesting landing in the Glitch codebase, which means you’re going to need a browser that supports nested CSS. All current browsers do, but Firefox didn’t officially land this until version 117, which is 2 versions newer than the version that’s available for Windows 7.
However, you can open the about:config tab and then change the layout.css.nesting.enabled flag from false to true, which turns that feature on for the older v115.
That may not always work, and this is the only browser I know of that will even support this in any form on Windows 7, and it has the obvious caveat that it’s an experimental feature in 115 and so its support is incomplete and the more the web at large moves forward in saying goodbye to CSS preprocessors that generate huge “expanded” CSS files (like Sass and Stylus), and gets back to writing normal CSS, this solution will get less effective.
But it will fix your specific problem right now.
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For windows 7 this bug it’s solved installing supermium browser.