[Imc-uk-features] Re: [imc-uk-tech] Displaying thumbnails of images

[manos]

Hi Chris and all,

This also leads me to the following issue: can we export some link to
the pictures/thumbs (at least for the main picture associated with the
features) in the RSS feed? I am working on a news aggregator and it
would be very very handy!

Manos

On 11/27/05, Chris <chris at aktivix.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The code to display thumbnails of images in articles has
> been deployed and in addition all articles with images and
> all articles with comments have been marked as unproduced
> -- this means that over the next few days articles.changed
> will take longer to run as tens of thousands of articles
> are going to be regenerated so that they get the new
> thumbnail and comments diplay.
>
> One thing that we might want to change is the CSS for
> thumbnails -- take a look at this page:
>
>   http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328514.html
>
> The extra whitespace is caused by the original images
> being different heights (426px and 414px) and the only way
> to solve this for all possible image sizes it to set a
> height for the thumbnail and this looks OK for images that
> have a odd aspect ratio, eg:
>
>   http://chris.dev.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/324135.html
>
> But when all the images are the same size it dosn't look
> so great because the boxes have too much whitespace:
>
>   http://chris.dev.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/324101.html
>
> So... I think the options are:
>
> 1. Leave the CSS as it is and accept that when images of
>    different heights are uploaded the layout goes a bit
>    weird.
>
> 2. Set a height and remove the border around each
>    thumbnail.
>
> Of course since this is just a CSS thing we can do
> different things for different regions...
>
> Chris
>
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