(regular)

19/12/2007 18:55

Picture size

Today a promising thread about "What Do You Look Like" has been spoiled by one and then another hugely oversize picture causing scroll bars to appear and the navigation buttons to slide off the edge of the screen.
The posters are probably not aware what will happen and may not realise what size the pics will appear.
But it doesn't half spoil the threads.
Is it possible to write a maximum pixel size into the software (in the same way as the 80x80 maximum for avatars) so that pics of more than, say, 750 pixels won't display?

Is this a reasonable idea?

VicS

(regular)

20/12/2007 11:39

Re: Picture size

Quote:

say, 750 pixels

Photobucket's size for message boards (640X480) fits the forum layout nicely and displays on 800x600 screens without scrolling being necessary. However although it works well for landscape orientation it is not so good for portrait orientation because the height is limited to 480 pixels so the width then becomes reduced to about 360 pixels, depending on the original picture proportions, making a rather small picture. So it is just the width taht needs limiting really.

I rather favour the use of clickable thumbnails. They take up minimal space on the page but can link to large pictures which open in a new window under control of the browser magnifier. It is also up to the reader whether he views the large pictures or not depending on his interest in them.

If you like cats you can click and view the full screen picture of the "black shadow" from next door. If you dont then you dont bother.

colmce

(regular)

21/12/2007 20:33

Re: Picture size

Aaaaah, another voice cries from the wilderness.
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php?C...rue#Post1560803

I've been grizzling on about this ever since I joined the forum, not made a jot of difference. It must be possible as no other forums I belong to have the same prob.

petem

(regular)

22/12/2007 15:56

Re: Picture size

Establishing the size of an image is straighforward in php, you use the getimagesize command.

The problem is that if you checked the image size for every [img] tag for each new post then it would slow the forums down. In fact, this solution wouldn't be 100% foolproof because someone could replace the image (on the web) with a larger one once the validation had been passed.

Therefore you would really have to check every image size every time a page that contains images is displayed. This would be horrendous!

Pete

pvb

(regular)

22/12/2007 22:10

Re: Picture size

Clickable thumbnails work well. Continuing the cat theme, here's Tiger - sadly she died a week ago, aged 16. They do it at Christmas out of spite, I think.

VicS

(regular)

23/12/2007 12:40

Re: Picture size

And to continue the pets and animals theme

Our cat, Fruity. A recent visitor enjoying some scraps put out for the birds. A little fellow who kept me company while I was "scrubbing the bottom" a few weeks ago.

LakeSailor

(regular)

24/12/2007 14:41

Re: Picture size

Yes, yes, I get the drift

But
a) The people who don't realise their pics are too big are hardly likely to be able to post thumbnails. Even if they did they would probably be 2000 pixels wide.

b) It's a lot of fart-arseing about for people like me who don't use auto-resizing sites.

Petem's point about slowing down the forum is probably quite good. However only initial validation would be needed. I don't think we have many malicious wide-posters on here. It mostly happens through not realising either the picture size or the effect it has on the forum window.

Sixpence

(regular)

24/12/2007 18:46