nice work huie, love the wood board (looks like balsa planks over foam?), and most curious about the grey and green single fin board with the bonzer looking bottom!
I have noticed that sometimes pics stored on Sway’s, even if small, don’t show up right away, giving a ‘Polaroid of Death’ icon. Then I go read another thread or come back a minute or two later, and they are fine.
Huck, thanks for fixing all the photos before. A sticky would be good if you want to make it policy. Inline photos need to be this many by that many pixels max or so many Mb max. Larger photos should be accessed by ‘click on the link’ and not placed inline. Some forums use a thumbnail scheme, could that be a solution here?
I have noticed another change. I cannot get the image button dialogue box to close after pasting a URL using IE 11. Is there something I can to do to fix this? Never had this happen with Firefox, untimely CPU failure forced me to switch boxes.
Yes. Could never understand why people post or email pics that are enormous. My area was late in acquiring DSL and high speed, so when I was still on dialup folks would send me 4 pics and it would take ten minutes for the email to load. And the pics would be 5Mbs each and 2400 wide, or bigger. PITA.
Anyway, the majority of screens in use as of Sept 2014 are 1366x768, with 1920x1040 a distant second. Any pic wider than about 1800 is too damn big for internet purposes.
Thanks Sammy! Back on Firefox, things are working better. I was being lazy after reloading all the other stuff I use on this computer so I had skipped loading Firefox. To think that browser selection still can cause problems nowadays…-J
Browser selection only causes problems if you use IE.
I can’t understand why MS has allowed their browser to become such a useless dinosaur. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all make IE look really anitiquated.
We’re still having a lot of people posting oversized images. If the picture is bigger than my computer screen, it creates problems. I downloaded a few and reduced them with MS Paint to a reasonable size, then re-posted. But I can’t follow everyone’s posts and reduce their pictures for them, everyone has to re-size their own pictures before embedding them in a post.
Hi Mako. While the problem may not be obvious on every computer, if a thread becomes glutted with oversize pictures, it creates problems. One reason you don’t see it is that the forum software reduces the pictures visually, but it doesn’t actually reduce the file.
Its a simple thing to re-size pics for posting, anyone can do it.
The pictures I posted yesterday were taken on my iphone and didn’t fill up my computer screen when uploaded. What is the “OK” file size then (obviously not 20MB)? Most of my pictures were just around 1MB I believe. Anyway, I’ll try to shrink them down and reupload now.
Hi Ryan, like I said, one reason you don’t see it is that the forum software reduces the pictures visually, but it doesn’t actually reduce the file. And while the picture appears correctly sized, if you right click and get the picture’s URL, then copy/paste and go to the URL, you will see what size you uploaded it at. And like I said, if its bigger than my screen, its too big. But if you go to the picture’s URL and its the same size (or very close) to the size it appears in your post, you’re good. Your resized pics in your rail bands thread are now perfect, thanks!
But, as already pointed out, the fact that an image looks normal sized on this site doesn’t mean a thing. The website shrinks the displayed image when the file is too damn big. The file size itself is not reduced
