[FreeSpaceFreak]

While narrow-window-browsing, I noticed that pictures in img tags are now apparently scaled to browser window width, making lvlshot effectively obsolete. Furthermore, img pictures are not stretched beyond their original size, like lvlshot does.

This is how it always should have been - no more pictures wider than the browser, nor fuzzy-stretched pictures on widescreen resolutions. No more teaching newbies to use lvlshot. Whoever made this change, please accept my profound gratitude

[Darius]

So does this mean all [img] tags all the time? Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with forum features...

[FreeSpaceFreak]

So does this mean all [img] tags all the time? Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with forum features...

Yep, quite so.

Icing on the cake now would be if [lvlshot] tags would be redirected to behave the same as [img], and blurry images would be a thing of the past for good! (hint hint... )

[General Battuta]

Nooo making images big and blurry is a vital posting capability. It is my posting backbone

[The E]

Brought to you by the power of lvlshot!

[Jeff Vader]

Looks evil.

[BritishShivans]

burn it

burn it with the holy promethium from mars

[Jeff Vader]

Ow ow ow. I think it burned my retinae.

[An4ximandros]

Nooo making images big and blurry is a vital posting capability. It is my posting backbone

 Support this notion! Blurry images are excellent ways of making teasers. Why use GIMP when the forums could do it for me?

[General Battuta]

Nooo making images big and blurry is a vital posting capability. It is my posting backbone

 Support this notion! Blurry images are excellent ways of making teasers. Why use GIMP when the forums could do it for me?

that's not going to work very well

[Axem]

Apparently this isn't as iron-clad as it appears!

I used img tags on the latest newsletter, but apparently that breaks the margins on the main page!

Thanks to BW who found this out and fixed this in my post.

See these pics for comparison!

http://lazymodders.fsmods.net/files/imgtag.jpg
http://lazymodders.fsmods.net/files/lvlshot.jpg

[Dragon]

Looks like it works differently on the main page than it does on the forums. Odd.

[Goober5000]

The HTML is the same in both cases.  Perhaps the CSS on the main page is different.

[Herra Tohtori]

Look, just re-enable* the [img width=X height=Y]<url>[/img] so we can set the image to scale to the exact size we want it to be (within reasonable limits for the X and Y parametres of course).

Both lvlshot and automatically-scaling img tag are imprecise and suboptimal solutions.

*This used to work, but then it didn't work any more. Last time I tried it didn't work, so I assume it continues to not work at this time.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Look, just re-enable* the [img width=X height=Y]<url>[/img] so we can set the image to scale to the exact size we want it to be (within reasonable limits for the X and Y parametres of course).

Wouldn't that hard-fix the size of images, and thus royally suck either for narrow-screen or wide-screen users?

[Herra Tohtori]

Wouldn't that hard-fix the size of images, and thus royally suck either for narrow-screen or wide-screen users?

Not if you limit it to something sensible. For example limiting width to 960 pixels would probably work on all displays... and that would happen to be 1920 divided by two.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Apparently this isn't as iron-clad as it appears!

I used img tags on the latest newsletter, but apparently that breaks the margins on the main page!

Thanks to BW who found this out and fixed this in my post.

See these pics for comparison!

http://lazymodders.fsmods.net/files/imgtag.jpg
http://lazymodders.fsmods.net/files/lvlshot.jpg

I knew it. The newsletter is also a testbed for tag quirks.

Wouldn't that hard-fix the size of images, and thus royally suck either for narrow-screen or wide-screen users?

Not if you limit it to something sensible. For example limiting width to 960 pixels would probably work on all displays... and that would happen to be 1920 divided by two.

You could go even further and reduce it to 480 pixels, which means even somebody who still uses a 640x480 screen size won't have issues browsing pages.

[Sandwich]

What I can do is assign a max-width of 100% to all [img] and [lvlshot] images. Goob/whoever - where do I change the HTML code generated from said BBCode tags?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it. I've adjusted the generated image code on the forums; now for the frontpage.

EDIT 2: Frontpage is fixed now too. Images should be good to go at any size across both the forums and the mainpage.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

What I can do is assign a max-width of 100% to all [img] and [lvlshot] images. Goob/whoever - where do I change the HTML code generated from said BBCode tags?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it. I've adjusted the generated image code on the forums; now for the frontpage.

EDIT 2: Frontpage is fixed now too. Images should be good to go at any size across both the forums and the mainpage.

So AFAICS, [img] and [lvlshot] now behave exactly the same? Yay for standardization

[Sandwich]

Yeah, I believe so. Unless anyone can think of a reason to use lvlshot from here on out - any way to differentiate it - I'm gonna recommend everyone use [img] tags from now on.