The lightbox viewer in automatically generated categories always uses very small sized "medium" images, with no easy access to the original. This is bad for high quality photos, etc. where people want to see the full details. I'd like an option to be able set the image size that lightbox will display for a gallery, such as "original", or have it fit to screen (the way all websites like Google+, Facebook, Flickr+, etc.) do.
larger/original size images in lightbox galleries
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This would most certainly be useful! For example, try reading the text on the image on this page: http://cyclods.wikidot.com/skin:take-me-to-the-hospital
You can read it, but it's very, very small. Being able to view the image at it's original size as part of the lightbox effect would be great.
@Wikidot: Is this possible?
Shane Smith
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You can do this, but I think it's a bug right now that allows it (or an error in documentation). See my post on this over on the communtiy:
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634945
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Thanks for posting that link, I didn't see that post earlier though I have seen that thread…
Unfortunately, in my case, I need to show all images on the page and there is no way for me to know what the filenames will be :(
Might help cold_blood3d though.
Shane Smith
Web Developer and Wikidot Community Administrator
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Neat, I didn't know that. Thanks. But of course it defeats the whole purpose of a convenient automatically created gallery.
What I hate is how viewing images is often an inconvenience for some people. With an auto-generated gallery, the images always open up in the same window. So (unless someone knows to ctrl+click), they have to go back and forth endlessly.
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I think we have all now seen the types of image browsers used by Facebook and Google+. They are screen overlays that adjust automatically to take up all the available room and definitely the nicest way to browse a gallery. I don't care about all the other image stuff. Just a way to browse images in full-size would be good.
Yes I agree. I would like to be able to use a lightbox for single images uploaded via dataforms. The gallery module can't be used due to the way that Wikidot saves an uploaded image to its own page. I did think of adding a new wish but this one seems to cover it, so +1 from me.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
I was wondering if there has been any update on this wish. Maybe there is some sort of open source code already existing that Wikidot could leverage? Fit-to-screen photo browsing galleries seem to the standard most of the social/photo sharing sites. I think a common approach is for websites to automatically generate a resized version of the file any time the window is resized. That way it displays a compatible resolution file while conserving bandwidth and load times. If you need the original, there is often a link to download the original (non-resized) file.
I was wondering if there has been any update on this wish. Maybe there is some sort of open source code already existing that Wikidot could leverage? Fit-to-screen photo browsing galleries seem to the standard most of the social/photo sharing sites. I think a common approach is for websites to automatically generate a resized version of the file any time the window is resized. That way it displays a compatible resolution file while conserving bandwidth and load times. If you need the original, there is often a link to download the original (non-resized) file.