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Registered Member #10
Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
Location: Bunbury, Australia
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Just a general intro thread for testing and whatever comments.
Just a few random comments. I get the option of posting thread as a sticky. Am I in God mode (Ooops - Mod mode) or does everyone get this choice :? (Now that I have posted, it is rather obvious in the profile.)
It might take a while to get used to the bilious smileys but that's what you get with a light blue skin I guess.
Attachments are up to 1M - good. What are the .png and .gz filetypes?
The feelers on this little cricket were as long as my hand. (edit: HEY! Chris stole my cricket - but reposted it later)
Registered Member #16
Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:22PM
Location: New Wilmington, PA
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Yeah, .png is an image format that allows transparent backgrounds like gifs, but with better color resolution (no ugly jagged edges). Windows users might not be so accustomed to them because for some inexplicable reason, windows doesn't properly support them. They come out looking like crap in winblowz.
.gz is an open source file compression system. Its used extensively in linux, and is commonly referred to as a 'tarball' as the file extension is usually filename.tar.gz or tar.gz2. Alot of binary installation packages and source code come as tarballs for non-rpm enabled linux distros.
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I am open to suggestions on size restrictions. Right now, it seems like 400 is the widest it can be, and have things still work on an 800 x 600 display.
Geometrically Frustrated Registered Member #6
Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 04:18AM
Location: Bowdoin, Maine
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I would like to see bigger images, but it's really not necissary. If you want a bigger image, you can always click to see the full size one.
Although the number of 800*600 users is decreasing, it's way more annoying for them to have to scroll sideways than it is for us to have to click to see a full size image.
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475 pixels worked on the old board, I guess I'm not sure what the differences with formatting are on this board as opposed to that, but perhaps something like 475 or 480 (a nice even width) would be better. 400 is a little too small to show detail, and even if it's just barely out of range on an 800x600 display it would probably be acceptable, as long as you don't have to scroll to read the text. With the 400 pixel images, you can still read everything without scrolling down to about a 730 pixel wide window.
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I suspect that any change from autosized to 475 will make transferring the ** Add your Tesla coil thread here ** a bit tedious. I also have a very big folder of 475 pixel wide files.
Only 12.5% of hits to my site use 800 x 600 and a few of those were me. I don't mind scrolling across for the picture. I DO mind scrolling back and forth within each sentence. I suggest that as long as the text is OK, pic size could remain autosized to 475 if possible as a compromise between picture size and download speed.
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