image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jaggy)

[ARTIFACT]

Example, this image is not large at all (333 x 500) ... and should be displayed without resizing it down.

The reason why I think the forum should allow images that are medium size is that it litterally destroys the images...

My plywood cuts look all messed up... they are not! they look like this only when I choose to display my images in the forum:


compare with opening it in a browser: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/757718816_5a1cbd044c.jpg?v=0

Thanks for considering tweaking the auto-resizer to allow for 500 pixel images (the default medium Flickr size) 

[saint]

Huh. I'll look into that, but the image you posted is not being auto-resized for me?

[BobA]

When I look at the image in the first message I can see the jaggies and the image is 319 x 480.   The flickr image is 333x500 and does not show any jaggies.  I am using Mozilla Firefox as my browser.

[saint]

Huh. Not doing it for me. What's your screen resolution? I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.5 with a resolution of 1024 x 768.

[SirPeale]

You have code in your message forcing that image to a particular resolution.  I removed that code.

[BobA]

My screen rez is 1680 x 1050

Tried it on another computer 1024x768 and it still displayed with jaggies in the message but not when the image was viewed directly.

[SirPeale]

Okay, this is WEIRD.  I keep removing the code that constrains the image to that res.  It keeps coming back! 

[saint]

Even odder - the forum was set to allow a maximum picture size of 640x480... I just bumped it to 800x600. Let's see what affect that has. May need to punt this one to SirWoogie.

[saint]

Ah! I understand now. It wasn't truncating the width from 500 to whatever. It was truncating the height to 480, and auto-sizing the width to match. So, I think I can tell it to have a maximum width with a much greater height.

[ARTIFACT]

Ah! I understand now. It wasn't truncating the width from 500 to whatever. It was truncating the height to 480, and auto-sizing the width to match. So, I think I can tell it to have a maximum width with a much greater height.

Thank you sir!

I *think* you fixed it ... I think I need to go edit out the width/height values on all my images now, for your new settings to kick in

[AtomSmasher]

On a similar note, does anyone have any idea why pictures posted with [img] tags might dissappear after a year or so?  I recently checked my old project thread (which I hadn't done in a few months) and almost all of the pictures have disappeared, and all of the posts show that they either haven't been edited or they haven't been edited since the day I originally posted them.  It's very odd.

And just to be clear, the images still exist on the server I put them on, it's the posts themselves that have changed and no longer have the [img] tags or the links to the pictures.

Heres a link to my old thread: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=42011.0
If you click my sig you can see how many pictures there are supposed to be.

[saint]

We had a problem with the database about a year ago or so, and I think several messages got screwed up.

[AtomSmasher]

We had a problem with the database about a year ago or so, and I think several messages got screwed up.

ah ok, I figured it was probably something like that.  It was just really weird how it was mainly just the images that got removed.

[saint]

Yeah, it's happened to several threads. I originally thought people had moved the images or some such.