image "containers"
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This may be completely impossible, but thought I'd ask anyway...
Is there any way that images posted in threads could have sized containers download before the images - so that the page layout is compiled first? On many threads we get quite picture heavy, problem is that trying to read any posts after a bunch of images you have to wait for the whole page to download, so page keeps jumping as each image starts loading in turn.
If that makes any sense (sorry, no sleep and being generally thick are not helping me vocalise my thoughts today)
Is there any way that images posted in threads could have sized containers download before the images - so that the page layout is compiled first? On many threads we get quite picture heavy, problem is that trying to read any posts after a bunch of images you have to wait for the whole page to download, so page keeps jumping as each image starts loading in turn.
If that makes any sense (sorry, no sleep and being generally thick are not helping me vocalise my thoughts today)
Reading you loud and clear 
This is quite tricky as the images are all hosted remotely, so to know the sizes we would need to go and find them out from the hosted image and then format the page based on that data before loading the page. This would then slow down page processing with the extra calls to the images, and also mean that the page load would be dependant on the slowest image being returned (and as they are linked to any tom, dick and harry site it could be on a very slow server).
I will have a think about it though and see if I can think of another way around this problem.
This is quite tricky as the images are all hosted remotely, so to know the sizes we would need to go and find them out from the hosted image and then format the page based on that data before loading the page. This would then slow down page processing with the extra calls to the images, and also mean that the page load would be dependant on the slowest image being returned (and as they are linked to any tom, dick and harry site it could be on a very slow server).
I will have a think about it though and see if I can think of another way around this problem.
Agreed, but I read the problem as the height of the images makes a page jump around as it loads... especially when viewing on a phone or if the images are running slow and you are trying to scroll through it and read it and suddenly everything shifts around.
Will look at the Div though
Will look at the Div though
the overly large images can be irritating with the width on loading, but it's the height that really gets annoying when not on a super fast connection, just as you get half way through reading a post it all jumps off the screen again.PetrolTed said:
Currently there's a javascript that works through a page and reduces large images to 640px (I think) wide.
The default div for images could be set at 640px wide so that they are scaled by the browser automatically...?
That might stop pages being overwide until fully loaded.
Wouldn't work though unfortunatly. If you have the div set to 640px, the image would start loading, stretch the div, image would load, onload event fired and image resized.The default div for images could be set at 640px wide so that they are scaled by the browser automatically...?
That might stop pages being overwide until fully loaded.
unless you floated the images over the div, then resized to fit the div width wise, get the dimensions of the image and fit the div to the image height.
If you fancied lots of work there's a solution that would work most of the time.
When the poster submits, you do the lookup of the linked image sizes at that point, then cache them somewhere. That way you only have the pain of lookup once, at submit time, and any delay is just the posters delay, not the thread reader.
Cheque's in the post I assume
When the poster submits, you do the lookup of the linked image sizes at that point, then cache them somewhere. That way you only have the pain of lookup once, at submit time, and any delay is just the posters delay, not the thread reader.
Cheque's in the post I assume
Xenocide said:
Floating images would be the best bet, thinking about it, then when the image has loaded, call an onload event to resize the image and the to fit div round it.
This would still cause the problems of the page jumping around as it has to still resize the image after page load - (that is if I understood what you said being it a Friday )RacingPete said:
Xenocide said:
Floating images would be the best bet, thinking about it, then when the image has loaded, call an onload event to resize the image and the to fit div round it.
This would still cause the problems of the page jumping around as it has to still resize the image after page load - (that is if I understood what you said being it a Friday )Don't think it's going to be an easy one to get around either way
Better than that, is it possible to have an automatic thumbnailer for those threads where someone posts about 10 pictures and somebody then quotes the whole damn post with a stupid "+1" as a reply.
We get some very interesting photo threads on here but the quoting of them and the issue stated above are really annoying to say the least.
We get some very interesting photo threads on here but the quoting of them and the issue stated above are really annoying to say the least.
Furyous said:
Better than that, is it possible to have an automatic thumbnailer for those threads where someone posts about 10 pictures and somebody then quotes the whole damn post with a stupid "+1" as a reply.
We get some very interesting photo threads on here but the quoting of them and the issue stated above are really annoying to say the least.
That is something we are looking into as I agree it isn't necessary. Though it wont save any bandwidth or speed it should make things easier to read.We get some very interesting photo threads on here but the quoting of them and the issue stated above are really annoying to say the least.
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