Topic: Wide pictures and horizontal scrolling

[kennysabarese]

So pretty often a large picture inside a post causes the body of the post to stretch horizontally past the right side panel. You get a horizontal scrollbar and you can never see the entire picture. I think the entire site should stretch horizontally instead.

Patrick.schmidts latest thread is a good example.

[Kelu]

I see them without horizontal scrollbars. 
Get yourself a larger resolution screen and stop buzzing around because of your ipad weak resolution. 

[kennysabarese]

FU
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[smartin]

Ouch!!!

I have a really large monitor because I do huge graphical publications, so I don't have this problem.

Maybe something like they did on the BB would help you.

[kennysabarese]

I have a big monitor at work. and a nice sized screen on my laptop. i can change my browser zoom to deal with it. but i bet a lot of less technical folks around here are not aware of how to deal with this, so i think it would be good to look into.

it's probably just a CSS setting (style sheets)

[smartin]

You're probably right.

[Kelu]

No, is not just a css setting. This has to do with img BB tag handler. Needs some work on functionality or a proper mod/hack for it.

P.S. Strike #2 with that FU Penguin, first strike was with the book, fear of strike 3 

[kennysabarese]

doh! it's never easy

[DeepBlueGXP]

It has to do with the site the photo is hosted from.    Photos attached directly to the forum are auto thumbnailed and when clicked expand to full size. 

[kennysabarese]

For an attached image (FU penguin) there is a thumb, but when expanded the same thing occurs. I think the entire site should go wide when the image is zoomed. Just my opinion

I have two shots attached to show what I mean.

Site scroolbar:

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Image only scroolbar:
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[DeepBlueGXP]

The post space won't get any larger due to the vendor banners on the right.  I'll do some checking and see what else I can do to make this easier.

[kennysabarese]

Yeah the vendor banners could get pushed to the right to make room, but only when necessary.

[Sly Bob]

Joe, isn't there a mod to auto resize the pictures to a lower resolution?

[DeepBlueGXP]

that only works when you attach directly to the forum

[TomatoSoup]

I think a scroll bar on each photo (rather than one for the whole post as it is now) would be a good compromise.  At least the scroll bar is close-by then, rather than as now where you have to scroll down to the bottom of what's usually a series of photos in the post, scroll right/left then scroll back up to your photo to see if you scrolled sideways enough!

Just my 2c

[normsf]

I think a scroll bar on each photo (rather than one for the whole post as it is now) would be a good compromise.  At least the scroll bar is close-by then, rather than as now where you have to scroll down to the bottom of what's usually a series of photos in the post, scroll right/left then scroll back up to your photo to see if you scrolled sideways enough!

Just my 2c

Great Idea, thanks from Norm