Attachments and thumbnails

T3rra

I never really noticed too much before, but I'm on a slower computer at the moment, so it's starting to affect my browsing.

I was browsing a FS thread, and the thumbnails attached were taking forever to load. When they did load, my browser was scrolling very slowly through them.

I checked the source of the page, and my suspicions were confirmed: the thumbnail is the exact same image as the full size, just with a height and width property set. So, it's pretty much loading the whole image from the get go, and displaying a ton of them as thumbnails, taking a bunch of memory to handle.

I'm not sure if it's a fluke, or what, since I haven't noticed it before. I guess the slow computer I'm on brought it out.

I'm not too up on ColdFusion, but I know PHP and a few other languages have a library for making thumbnails on the fly. I have a gallery set up at home where I did this using PHP.

BouncekDeLemos

Yeah, all resized images here are the original size, just drag and drop them on your desktop or a new tab, they'll show the original size. Resizing is mostly for everyone to see it better without having to scroll everywhere. There still might be slowdown.



I was all for having to resize when you first post them, not after a re-edit... but this idea you have seems good too, especially for people with large images. But sometimes, even with the thumbnails, it'll still slow down. There was a lot of times that I was on a forum, and there was these images loading and took forever. Only AFTER they got done loading, they turned into thumbnails. =\

Dain

If people attach images using the wysiwyg editor, it automatically shrinks them. I may actually remove the ability to use file attachments for images, or just create a link to them instead of loading them. You're not the only one annoyed with it