Forum:Standard Image Size, Pt. II

One of the major questions in my head while visiting and editing this wiki is, why you keep adding fixed pixel widths to thumbnail pictures as their appearance - that of frameless images, too - should be controlled by the user's settings (not registered users have a thumbnails size of 180px width) while images that are smaller won't be upscaled.

So why don't you let the readers decide how wide they want the images to be in the article? -- [ defchris ] · [ Diskussion ] · 15:34, July 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * And btw... Why did you rebuild Wikia's   tag? -- [ defchris ] · [ Diskussion ] · 15:39, July 23, 2012 (UTC)

I think it's a matter of controlling the layout of the page, to keep it uniform and avoid visual errors. About the gallery template, I think some users simply didn't like the layout of the new Wikia's gallery (honestly, I also like the template better then the default gallery).


 * Well,    works just fine in my wikis as gallery. There's actually pretty much you can do there: Help:Galleries and slideshows/wikitext. ;)
 * As for controlling the layout: There are two skins active. Monobook and Wikia/Oasis which is the standard no matter what registered users see through their settings. One is as wide skin, the other a narrow. Having fixated pixel provokes that one starts changing the sizes because "(s)he finds them better"... That's why there's no fixes size attribute in my wikis in thumbnail images. If there's one needed to be smaller or larger there's the attribute upright which changes the thumbnails' sizes based on the users' settings. Without numbers it simply switches the sizes for height and width, and with upright=x thumbnails may become smaller with x<1.0 or larger x>1.0</tt>. -- [ defchris ] · [ Diskussion ] · 15:38, July 25, 2012 (UTC)