Lightbox/shadowbox image resize and zoomer?

[jimmydanny]

Since you guys are running phpBB, I know for a fact they exist for this type of forum, and aren't that hard to implement.

Just a thought, saw a linked image was shown full-size in my thread. Lightboxes work awesomely!

[PikkaBird]

Might be nice.

In the meantime, I made your linked pic a bit smaller.

[kamnet]

I'm old school, I hate lightboxes!

[jimmydanny]

you'll get to love them soon enough Kamnet!

[kamnet]

I didn't love them when I tried them and discarded them on my own phpBB boards in 2006.

[jimmydanny]

9 years! They don't break the forum design, and they let you preview the image and see if it is anything interesting! It is handy. Another solution is to have auto-resize and click for full size.

[Pyoro]

Auto-Resize is nice. But it's been suggested before I agree that it'd be nice to get rid of the 800x600 limit, but whatever ... kinda used to it by now. ^^

[Chrill]

I recall we had auto-resize but it was removed because it didn't just resize the photo but rather generated a new, big file size, version of it. Maybe I remember incorrectly.

[jimmydanny]

I know the lightbox uses the original image (I am mostly thinking towards [img] linked images) and just uses w= and h=, and a small nifty javascript to make it pop up in a fancy manner to the full sized image.

I could understand the issues if it was like you say, Chrill.

[Pyoro]

Yes, but the fact that those scripts use the original image is apparently sort of the problem:

If you mean a JavaScript-based resizer (if even that) that basically just does <img src="x" width="800" height="600" />, then that would still result in potentially multi-megabyte images having to be downloaded (potentially a problem on mobiles) and rendered (oh look, somebody just embedded a 10,000 x 10,000 pixel image and it's crashed your browser).

I do mean these, but you can still set a limit to image size and they can resize dynamically to your used screen resolution. So for example you could allow everything up to perhaps 1920x1080 and it'd get resized for anyone with smaller screens. As far as I'm aware it's also possible to exclude attachments from this. IMO it's especially nice for smart phone and notebook users, or those who browse windowed

And I'm pretty sure there's currently no size limit set either, so anyone could theoretically link to a dozen oversized 32bit PNGs or whatever in a post currently, couldn't they? I'd guess a mod would remove these cases. Should they ever happen What would change, except that things would be resized to always fit browser windows? If people want to annoy someone, they'll always find a way ^^

Well, anyways. I know I suggested this but I couldn't resist throwing this in again. I'm just too used to this feature everywhere

[orudge]

When we move to phpBB 3.1, I can look into this again perhaps. Don't want to add any more customisations to the forum until then, at the very least.