Post by xairbusdriver on Oct 19, 2018 15:57:36 GMT
[slightly off topic]
There's another reason for limiting the pixel dimensions of your uploads. I haven't uploaded any images at this forum, but other forum software may have file size limits. The key word there is "may". If the forum you upload to has file size limits, you'll soon discover it and you then need to consider Bailey's concerns.
My biggest complaint about posting "full-size" images comes when I visit a forum with no file size limits! It this case, the viewer will usually end up with horizontal (and possibly vertical) scroll bars around that image. Some older forum software will even force horizontal scrolling on the entire thread!! The worst possible, in my humble opinion, of all.
Bottom line: Don't depend on a site's CSS or software to resize your images. PLEASE don't force viewers to use horizontal scrolling to see your images. And please do not waste a site's storage space on those much too large files that may, if the viewer is lucky, display with less than a 900 pixels max!
I think some of the worst offenders are those who use screen captures. If you have a screen resolution higher than the viewer, your image can easily display much bigger than what you saw. TIP: Never upload a full-screen capture unless you have down-sized it! PLEASE.
It's a shame that most free image storage sites now do not allow off-site display of the images.
This is basically a lack of courtesy for the viewers of your images. Hopefully it just a lack of knowledge. It's rather like using ALL CAPS in an email.
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There's another reason for limiting the pixel dimensions of your uploads. I haven't uploaded any images at this forum, but other forum software may have file size limits. The key word there is "may". If the forum you upload to has file size limits, you'll soon discover it and you then need to consider Bailey's concerns.
My biggest complaint about posting "full-size" images comes when I visit a forum with no file size limits! It this case, the viewer will usually end up with horizontal (and possibly vertical) scroll bars around that image. Some older forum software will even force horizontal scrolling on the entire thread!! The worst possible, in my humble opinion, of all.
Bottom line: Don't depend on a site's CSS or software to resize your images. PLEASE don't force viewers to use horizontal scrolling to see your images. And please do not waste a site's storage space on those much too large files that may, if the viewer is lucky, display with less than a 900 pixels max!
I think some of the worst offenders are those who use screen captures. If you have a screen resolution higher than the viewer, your image can easily display much bigger than what you saw. TIP: Never upload a full-screen capture unless you have down-sized it! PLEASE.
It's a shame that most free image storage sites now do not allow off-site display of the images.This is basically a lack of courtesy for the viewers of your images. Hopefully it just a lack of knowledge. It's rather like using ALL CAPS in an email.
[and now, BACK TO THE PREVIOUSLY RUNNING TOPIC]
