Please limit the width of your pictures.

Bumpyroad wrote:

az99 wrote:
Why not even jump this forum into the 1990's and change it to direct photo load like most other forums?

WHOA!!! slow down. next thing you'll want them to include ATC in "newest".
bumpy :)

Yeah, then we will want a spell check that works! Don't spoil us.

Not much different on my iPhone .
Sorry for the pic of the laptop screen .
The setting for upload/display size is not available on the app one must go to the website.

This is the next smaller size on Photobucket

Almost but no cigar!:) Looks like you will need to manually put in the "width=640" statement just as I showed in the example. If you want to see what I did to this post, just click "edit" and take a look. Look for the "width=640" (without the quotes) statement just before the end of the url. Then use your back button so it will not be saved again.
Barney

I didn't start this thread to debate the forum software or even the picture posting limits. I simply made a request to keep your pictures to a certain size. It has been discussed in detail before and we don't need to go there again,

I know that the forum software is very outdated but it is what it is.
If I had my wishes granted, I would wish for new forum software also but that does not seem to be in the cards.
Barney

az99 wrote:
Why not even jump this forum into the 1990's and change it to direct photo load like most other forums?

WHOA!!! slow down. next thing you'll want them to include ATC in "newest".
bumpy :)

Why not even jump this forum into the 1990's and change it to direct photo load like most other forums?

tvman44 wrote:
Sure wish everyone did follow the limit. :)

I would suggest that Barney just delete any oversized photos. that would immediately cure the problem and would make his life easier.
bumpy

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.

Well, here's the other side of that coin..............

I think the forum's max width could stand to be a little larger, myself. If I'm going to go to the trouble of taking pictures to document something I think is interesting, editing them, uploading them, and posting them to the forum with some decent narrative, I'd like for the details of the image to be clear. Sometimes a small image is OK, depending on what you're taking a picture of, but sometimes it's not.

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.

:):)

I've been wanting to do this, since I'm a newbie but just didn't know how. Thanx loads.