I try to make sure they are reasonable... sometimes it is out of my control if it is a really good picture and not hosted by me. ;) But yes, it is best if things are kept at a moderate size.
I always had a feeling Crazydiamond was a Dom. ;)
I know what you mean, and it's a little irritating. Unfortunately some members just don't get it.
The profiles are a bit of a nuisance when super large images are posted, they get resized on the fly (or should do), but while you're waiting for that to happen, the profiles go all over the place.
Oh for instant computing and zero latency!
I'd be surprised if that w3 figure of 85% is still accurate, the rise of mobile and tablet internet usage over the past three years alone has knocked every thing we thought we knew about acceptable screen widths into a cocked hat.
Right now, as I'm writing this, the text input field now is wider than my screen, which is annoying - I'm on a desk top with 17inch screen set to 1280px using Chrome.
I know the forum is third-party but maybe some kind of scripting can be cooked up to thumbnail posted images to defined heights and widths that click/reveal to a full size overlay
Pics that are 1280 across are still nudging 0.5MB - a bit of a nightmare if you're on a 100MB mobile data limit (common on entry level tariffs in the UK) - a page of 20 posts like that would consume 10% of your monthly data. Resizing client-side does nothing to affect the amount of data downloaded.
Best advice I'd give is don't go on image threads. Users profiles are another problem though - the page weights on some of them are ridiculous, especially where you get people posting 4 or 5 1 MB gifs in a single wall post.
@nicola - any chance gav can use that jquery script that only downloads images that are currently in the screen frame (I think it's used on the friends list page) on profiles too?
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I don't like small images, although I've heard that it's what you do with them that matters, rather than their size.
As it goes, it plays about with wall pics too. When they are too big all the box areas freak a bit. Not a major problem , but i notice.
