And could somehow still please turn the picture autosqueeze feature up to at least 800 px width so we can show the nicer Large resolution smugmug pics without the ugly side effects? This feature is truly ridiculous and pointless.
why ?? maybe your the only person on Carpe to use Smugpants but it doesn't bodder anyone else ???
It's got nothing to do with smugmug. There's a feature on the forum which squeezes pics to a pretty tiny display size (the size of the pic itself in kb is not reduced, so loading time or server load is still identical) without any reason whatsoever. There's plenty of nice pics encountered anywhere on the web, with a lot of them being 800x600 or similar, but this feature makes them look horrible... for no reason. So why not either remove the feature (although I can imagine it being good for people who have no clue how to reduce their 12 megapixel picture, but then still the kb size is NOT reduced and IE7 or Firefox will still autoreduce them anyway) or just increase the size to 800 pixels width, which is still a lot smaller than most laptop / pc display sizes?
It doesn't bother other people perhaps because they think it actually reduces kb size and figure the feature is good for something, which it isn't. It's a shame if you want to display a topic with some nice looking pics, even if they would be in a fine resolution for 90% of the users (PDA / GSM users have browsers which reduce pics anyway), because they just look screwed up. Not a lot of people do that, so even less know about it. It's completely pointless, so why would one want such a feature? It would bother even less folks if it wasn't there (or set up differently).
Anyway, glad to see a few nice images of Ewan and Charley arriving in Capetown. Saddened that everything in the series seems so incredibly rushed or cut out. I mean from Malawi to South Africa in 1 hour... Namibia about 5 minutes, South Africa in about 3 minutes. That somehow seemed totally different in LWR, perhaps because they edited most of America out of the series which left enough intimate details about the part through Asia. Perhaps there was too much emphasis now on a lot of the Unicef projects, or maybe it was the feeling their trip never began because their 3-car support team was almost always with them? Or just expectations were too high? I dunno... but it disappointed even though they must have had a much better time than what we got to see. In LWR we got the feeling to be riding with them, now it's more a feeling of catching glimpses.
Edited by E-njoy, 02 December 2007 - 11:10 pm.
