Please limit the width of your pictures.

NRALIFR wrote:

No disrespect to anyone intended, but having been on the creative side of more than one long, detailed topic that included lots of pictures, I think the needs of the "artist" should be balanced against the complaints of the forum members with screen width issues. I use a netbook that has a very small screen most of the time to view the forum, but as long as the image is less than ~850-900 wide, I don't get any horizontal scroll bar.

Maybe a screen-rez adjustment would help those that can't display an image wider than 640 without scrolling.

:):)

Agreed with above... but I'm thinking the 640 pixel limit is to help speed page-load times, but the way it is implemented it doesn't help at all.

The way this forum software works, I could link to a 4000 pixel wide image and punch in 640 in the insert picture window. Your browser will still download the full 4000 pixels, and then scale it before displaying it on the screen.

Having spent a few years as a professional web developer, 480-640 pixels is very "web 1.0", folks were working off 14" CRT monitors with a max res of 800x600 pixels, it made sense.

web 2.0 saw 1024x768 become standard, with 15" LCD monitors taking over. 800 pixel wide images could be shown, and you still have room for a sidebar full of adverts.

funny thing, here we are post 2.0 and screens haven't gotten much better. the average display is 720p now, which is 1366x768 not much of an improvement. 1080p screens are flooding the market for the past year or there abouts, so the next size bump is what, 1024 pixel images?

640 px is restrictive, but what's worse is how it is implemented.