Fixed the 'large images' issue

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Fixed the 'large images' issue

Post Brend » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:21 pm
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Brend
 
Good news everyone!

After much whining (mostly 'from <me> to <Mercury>' though) about enormous images I decided to fix the root of the problem: the site is displayed on all kinds of sizes ranging from Mercury's large wide-screen to Brend's small square screen, so images should be visible in all cases.

(Some of you might remember the 'Image of three Hutts'. Which, on my screen, was the 'image with one Hutt missing', until someone informed me that a third Hutt was available on wide-screen. Unfortunately, the image wasn't uploaded to the wiki by Mercury, so we can't see it any more.)

To enhance images on the forum, I did four things:
  • Images never get wider than the post. If they are too wide, they are automatically scaled down to exactly fit into the post. (This means that everyone will see the complete image -- and that people can upload high-resolution images without problems)
  • added a [left] tag, which can be used to align an image to the left
  • added a [right] tag, which can be used to align an image to the right
  • added a [center] tag, which can be used to center an image in the middle of the post (this works well with the new layout, and seems to be an immense improvement for storytelling purposes)

Though the [left] and [right] already existed, I mention them because they are part of the image fixing package.

(As always you have to Refresh your cache!)

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