Ok,
The last resizer we had caused problems with a few browsers and also slowed the load down and technically loaded the page twice so we removed it and Pet worked on a new one.

Now, the pictures will all load into a 640x480 thumbnail.
When you move the mouse over the thumbnail it will jump up to the size it was originally uploaded at.

Try it here:
https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...r=asc&start=40

Remember, you will have to get into the habit of keeping the mouse to the left or right of picture topics if we keep this mod so the pics scroll by undisturbed on your screen.

I like it LOTS. You may not.... comments welcome.

Dont forget, the resizers are ONLY needed for people who dont bother to load em up the correct size anyway. I reccomend 640x480 max.

 

Top work very nice feature

have to say im one of the culprits that doesnt resize my pics sorry

 

We like, thats cool hun!!!!!!

 

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thats fantastic

 

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153830


another good thread to test it out on

 

Gracie, its YOUR topic that made me hastle Pet to finish it sooner as to be honest, i couldnt be bothered scrolling left to right all the time to read it.

 

The size of the pics is now good but wouldn't it be easyer to have it so you click the image instead of moving your mouse over it to get it to go large as it where?

 

perfect, like it!!!

cant be bothered to click on them, just moving mouse over is ideal imo!

 

very cool idea fellas!

 

One word: Brilliant

What would happen if the picture was physically larger than your screen though, would you be able to scroll around to see it in full ?

Agree with what you said though stu, as soon as image resizing was available, every uploaded pictures was loadsamegabytes big, can't be good for 56k users.

PS: With photobucket you can get thumbnails on the post, with a link to the full size one, imo that's the best option, thumbnails are big enough to see if you want to load the full size picture or not.

e.g. Click for full size

 

 

Yes, using your arrow keys.
The ULTIMATE solution is to educate users to resize their pics, not only dimensionally but physically too, but after years of trying i have accepted its never going to happen

 

Test:


Or of course you can "Right mouse, save as"

 

Personally I don't like it.

I find it quite offputting when scrolling down the screen, and the page keeps jumping about from size to size.

The old system was far superior, as it kept pictures to a slightly smaller size, but obviously I can appreciate the problems it caused.

Not a fan

 

Gotcha, and I know what you mean... until we had resizing, all pictures were nice and trim, then suddenly whoaaaaa, posts take ages to load with full size pictures

 

soooowwweeee

 

Right, I retract my previous statement.

I've just looked at my resto post, and it makes it a lot easier to read......

 

for more input.

 

seems spot on

 

Very good feature! IMO it would be perfect if it changed size on clicking it like the old one.


Alternatively....... would it easier to just put a limit on the number of letters per line so that even if people did put massive photos on you could still read all the text with no problems

 

yep like that a lot

 

One thing we could change, is to simply stop it resizing back to normal on mouseover so ALL it does is resize everyones pics to 640x480.

Any thoughts?

 

im not tokeen on the mouse over thing

But is much better haveing them resized

 

it is a very cool feature , but is it necessary? i'm all for just automatically resizing all pictures, and then if folk want to post a large full size pic, post up a link.

 

Have to agree that thumbnail size pics would be better. Would it be possible to have pics as attachments and say a px or kb limit and you have to physically click on them rather than mouseover?

I find it a bit too much with pics and sigs, having only a laptop at the mo. It's only possible sometimes to view one reply at a time on the screen.

Will the facility to turn off sigs be coming back Stu?

 

noooo dont have thumbnails, unless you could have it as an option in ur profile?

 

I may ask Pet to play about some more with this one then

Lynne, Yes, i had forgotten about that as i never used it, but your right, we need that incorporating back as well

 

Its great

WAP still not working though. You can't browse more than the first page of any topic

 

i think it works very very well exactly how it is now, would be interesting to see how more people with slower connections are getting on with it though,

 

Here is the view I get without pics I imagine most using laptops will get the same. I must admit it is better on a larger screen, but my PC is well broke, so laptop it has to be....

 

i use laptop at hone for the site and have no issues viewing what so ever

 

Pet is currently tryuing some things so ignore errors for a while please

 

Ok, for the moment, the hover resize feature is removed. See how we get on

 

 

wicked, works fine. like it

 

 

Spot on the way it is now

useing firefox