Hi Alex, my Chrome setting is Medium, 100% zoom
It also behaves this way in Firefox (IE 10 won’t load LingQ for me, crashes at login screen)
thanks for your interest in solving this issue!
PS to my mind though, it still doesn’t change the principal problem though in that the process is non-intuitive
why wouldn’t the developers base the LingQ creation around the word or phrase as it appears on-screen?
(ie by right-click on the word or a highlighted phrase to get a menu of what to do with this data…right clicking
to get a contextual menu is pretty much a standard convention for text processing… think spell-check or
copy-paste, for instance…)
Having a system where you highlight a word and then something happens off-screen where it doesn’t give you any
feedback, doesn’t make sense from a user-friendly perspective…you can’t tell that the task has completed successfully, or that the definition was the one that you were expecting
When there is no pre-defined “hint” it is even more confusing, because the user is given a window full of html or js code that possibly contains a link to an external page (some dictionary program) but it doesn’t tell you what to do with it
At that point, it is just easier to open a new browser window and Google up the word normally to get it’s meaning…but you don’t have the option to make a new LingQ for it…so probably a lot of users have to store their new word definitions in something OTHER than LingQ because they simply don’t know how to make a new one from scratch
maybe I’m the odd man out here, but I suspect that lots of people TRY LingQ get frustrated and then leave without asking for help…learning a new language is daunting enough without having to play a very unsatisfying guessing game with the interface on top of it all
In case anyone is wondering, I don’t dislike LingQ, I REALLY want it to work for me and have come back several times over the years hoping that it will be a better time to learn, but the interface in general and the broken screen layout is really a BIG barrier for me