Forum:Image thumbnails


 * moved from User talk:Topher208. Issues like this concerning the whole wiki should be discussed in the forums.

Hey, the new images are forced to be really small. Why? It looks bad, especially if we want it to look a certain way and be a certain size. Can we fix it? Or can we get a conversation or explanation started here? Respond quickly. --Call me the "FLASH"! (Talk) 20:43, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Flash, if you're referring to my changing of the images on Phineas Flynn, then let me explain. Different people have different resolutions on their computers, and not everything looks the same as it does on your screen. There are options in the Skin Files tab on the My Preferences page to change your own default thumbnail size. If you want, you can make your thumbnails as big or as small as you want by using that page. Others can do the same. Remember, if you make something 200px, it doesn't necessarily fit the same on everyone else's computer the way it does on yours. If you are talking about something else, then let me know, otherwise I hope you understand why I've been changing specific size thumbnails to generic thumbs. —Topher 03:51, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Yea I hate that, I am a digital designer and that's my biggest peeve, when I build a website for someone I have to build it so everyone can view it easily, which I finally figured out how to fix that but it is really hard, can you set the size of images here instead of by how many pixels but instead by how much percent of the screen it takes up? felinoel ~ (Talk) 14:18, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I just asked the experts at the IRC chat and they said mediawiki is not setup to use a percent of page based thumbnail size. There used to be some very complicated code to make it a percent of screen, but that was long ago. The default thumbnail size for users on wikia is 180px, which works well for 800x600 and the 1024x768 the most users are set to. However, my LCD resolution is natively 1280x1024 so I use a 200px thumbnail default. This is as close as I can get to making my screen look like most users at 1024x768 with a 180px thumb size. In addition to different screen resolutions, many people also change the default font size on their web browsers. Bottom line is: there is no fool-proof solution within the wiki framework. We just have to leave thumbs set at default sizes unless there's extraordinary circumstances and hope that users make good choices when setting up their preferences. —Topher 05:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Aw, too bad, would have worked awesome, but yea it was extremely lengthy and complicated felinoel ~ (Talk) 06:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)