Suggestion???

Hey Rich, was wondering if you would consider an image resizer add-on, that automatically resizes the images people attach to, or put directly in the post, to a more reasonable size?

vBulletin.org has one that I use at Boaddiction, and it hasn't caused a single hitch for me so far. We run 3.8, but the add-on is wrote for your version of VB. You have a license, so you should have access to the download area. It's a really simple install too.

Here's the thread concerning the add-on if you're interested...

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=184571


Anyway, if you'd consider, it would eliminate the stretching of the browser window when you view a thread with images posted straight from the camera. That's really annoying to me. LOL
If you elect to do it, I'd set the width to what you prefer (I use 750) and leave the height blank, and it will hold your specified width, and proportion the height accordingly.

Thanks for considering.
Rick

OK, I'll look into it. Thanks..

For those reading that don't know this, this really isn't a problem with images that are attached as files, as there are already limits in place for the sizes of images. But when a file is referenced via an external file on another server, then the images can really be ANY size, including those that just screw up the displayed page something awful.

And, of course, a LOT depends on the size of the screen you are looking at as to what will be considered as acceptable and what isn't to you personally. I'm using a 28 inch screen, so what I see will be a LOT different from what someone might see on a mobile device. Quite honestly, I will not "lowest common denominator" such a setting to favor the smaller screens anyway.

28" eh. Sounds like you're about 7" longer then me.

Thanks for checking it out. I just hate scrolling left and right to read the posts. I'm sure others will enjoy it too.

BTW, we're using the 1.2.8

Yep, BIGGER is BETTER....

If you didn't want to go that whole route, you could always use a percentage width constraint in the site's CSS... you could use very specific selectors and target only inline images included in post bodies, so that they're automatically resized to say 90% of available box space.... if you didn't want to go the mod route...