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You can't actually see all the left-menu items on http://getbootstrap.com/components/ on a 13inch screen.

This is the main problem I've found with fixed position, large height nav. Unless you engineer a way for the nav to be responsive and scroll separately from the page (which, BTW, is a bad UX) the bottom will get cut off.

I can't see all of them on a 1080p screen at 125% zoom, either.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page the sidebar will eventually scroll down and show them. Still an error though, and the irony, given the context, makes it a bit comical.

I can't see them all, even at 80% zoom, on a rMBP using Firefox with three rows of browser tabs. There are too many ways for this component to fail.

Which browser? Works fine for me in Safari 6 at any zoom level.

Chrome, 10.6, 1280x800.

It probably wasn't tested with this old of a version of chrome/webkit. Works fine for me (I'm on Chrome 28.0) at that resolution. Assuming the browser version is the issue, I don't really see it as being a problem that bootstrap needs to address. Versions of chrome older than 22 account for 1.3% of the browser market share, and since bootstrap has dropped support for IE7 (0.7% MS) and FF3.6, it isn't surprising that they aren't targeting this.

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_chrome.asp

10.6 refers to the operating system. Chrome auto updates - I'm on version 28.0.1500.95.

13" MacBook Air here. Looks more than fine.

It's cut off on my 13" MacBook Air on chrome.

Same here, 15".

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