Alien Revenge?

I missed Whazoo farewell story also, I enjoy his stories and the way he tell them. There is another TC website call Wandering the West for those who don't known about it.

Buzzcut1 wrote:
btggraphix

on the chrome browser for android phones there is an option to reformat the web page for mobile browsing. it works really well for me.

Thanks, I learned something new. I've been using Firefox for Android and had to do a lot of zooming in and out.

I am thunderstruck by this development.

Dave is one of the most talented people I have ever run across....and a treasure to this Forum and our shared interest in truck camping. He is one of the people who DISTILL what this is all about. There are others, everyone has their list, but no one reaches the heights of Whazoo. I don't know what to do.....I'm really saddened.

I have enjoyed Whazoos trip reports over the years, he is one of the main reasons I am planning a trip to the southwest. I can remember crying along with him when he lost his dog, he will be missed.

Side note, I use Photobucket to host my pics, it automatically resizes the pics to 640 when I link to them.

btggraphix

on the chrome browser for android phones there is an option to reformat the web page for mobile browsing. it works really well for me.

Missing the Great Whazoo?
Well I'm doing a happy dance this morning as he has appeared over at Wander the West:
http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/topic/9915-sailing-the-southwest-with-the-whazoos/
Trade in those Lance slides and join us in the land of pop ups.

Right, isn't that in effect the mobile versus standard page? I use both of those sites and they seem to automatically choose that based on the device you are on. Either way, I guess that's pretty much the point. I think that would be a great thing for Rv.net.

btggraphix wrote:
Point #1, rather than creating an auto resizing function which other forums do when they HOST the photo, I would rather see this forum have a mobile version!

What good software could do (done on many websites) is show you a large or small icon that you can click on and see the picture in it's stored properties.

TCM and LOA both have this feature.

Wow! Miss a thread (or two) miss a lot! Bummed I missed what I am sure were some if the best photos provided in a TR by Dave. I believe the focus of that last trip was photography and learning to take even better photos. To have the snowstorm added to the desert scenery during this focused trip.....I bet they were amazing.

Dave and his TRs will be missed greatly here but as Pink Floyd said "the show must go on.

As I read through these posts and had a number of thoughts to contribute, reading on my iPhone (while waiting for our truck to be tested for a possible head gasket leak) I thought damn, who put up the wide picture?!?! Way to go BKA! Way to make an effective example to prove a point! Lol..... Sideways to see the photo, vertical and scrolling to read the text!

Point #1, rather than creating an auto resizing function which other forums do when they HOST the photo, I would rather see this forum have a mobile version! Now that there seems to be a major split in viewing devices between mobile/small and stationary/large it makes the most sense to supply two formats to the reader. You will never please both groups with an in between solution. I hate the small size when on a desktop, and I hate the large sizes when on my mobile.

Point #2, all too often discussion threads like this become a fire (a la DRW versus SRW) whereas long involved and effort required posts like TR's get a lot of reads but little comment. I feel like we don't give enough support and encouragement at times to people's efforts at TRs or even thought in responses to involved questions. I am guilty of this as well at times, but it is something to think about. It is frustrating to some, possibly including TGW (The Great Whazoo), to see so big a ratio between "reads" and "replies". His always got a ton of feedback, but with many others, there isn't much. I dunno, I know now that I am living in our camper full-time, and am mostly reading via phone, I make it a point to try to focus my few posts on supporting the next generation of TR writers. If I read an effort, I try to reply and be encouraging to the writer. It's worth supporting those that make the effort. In fact, I might even add to someone like TGW's consternation by replying to newby TR writers for their effort when I fail to reply and give credit to veterans that I tend to think "don't need it". I know from my own writing that if it weren't for the feedback commensurate with the effort, it is really easy to just quit doing it. I hope I didn't contribute to TGW's frustration with this site. Morale of this whole point, is "if you read a TR an enjoy it, PLEASE give the writer feedback or thanks" or they may not go for another effort down the line. This forum needs contributors to thrive and to keep my attention for the next ten years of readership.

I hear Jim Morrison chanting in my head (for the second time lately) "This is the end......"

Safe travels Dave, see you down the road or trail.

(Now to see how this post looks after typing it on this rediculously little screen with an oversize picture within.....we need a mobile version!)

JumboJet wrote:

bka0721 wrote:

JumboJet wrote:
Bits and bytes - With the cost of storage today, I am surprised any company sponsored forum, complete with advertisers, would complain about larger than 640x480 pictures. My phone provider offers lots of storage. My Kindle has tons of CLOUD storage. Microsoft offers me tons of CLOUD storage. My personal Laptop computer has 3/4 of a Terabyte storage. Computer and storage - less than a $1,000.

You have missed the point. The size of the photo width has nothing to do about storage, it has to do with the ability to read and view the screen.
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The point I was wanting to make and screwed it up was it is all in the SOFTWARE.

The engine behind the forum could easily take care of the presentation. The company I work for uses Yammer. Yammer handles the picture presentation no matter what size I upload.

It looks like they are Coldfusion. No idea what the forum software is.

They have limited control of the size of the pics because they don't host them. In fact your browser downloads the entire huge picture but the width tag tells the browser to resize it.

It seems they could very easily just add the width tag to their img tags though. I am a developer and a change like that would take about 30 seconds.