[Imc-uk-features] Re: UK specific picture display

[manos]

Hi all,

I also think that the size of the thumbs is way to small to be able to
even judge is you would like to see a larger version. So in the short
term increasing this would be nice.

On the long term side I agree that a way of including photographs in
the text would be nice. Maybe also the choice of including the
large/thinb version and some control over the text flow (clear on the
sides or left aligned with text flowing right, or right aligned with
text flowing left might be good options).

In any case, this is definitely not going to stop me sending material
to IMC UK in any way.

Manos

On 11/27/05, mini mouse <mini_mouse at riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I know this (imc-photos) is a worldwide list and apologise for
> bothering those outside the UK but most of the UK photos are
> subscribed to this and we need to confer on something.
>
> And it might also be useful as non IMC-UK photographers may have
> something to contribute.
>
> IMC UK has suddenly changed the way it displays photographs. They
> were until now displayed consecutively, between the intro of a
> newswire article and the body of the text. As a result of recoding
> they are now displayed as 150x100px thumbnails, with a click to
> display full size.
>
> MIR is currently recoding the whole site and a number of people are
> angry that their legacy work is being altered.
>
> We understand that this coding is not destructive, and that the
> images can be restored at full size.
>
> So the issue is, how should photographs be displayed?
>
> Are thumbnails sufficient within an article, if so how big?
> Could we have control over how they are placed within an article -
> placing text and pictures as we feel appropriate?
> What is possible within the restrictions of MIR?
>
> One option is here:
>
> At 21:42 +0000 27/11/05, Chris wrote:
> >One thought -- would having a link to display the images
> >the old way be acceptable to people?
> >
> >See mockup here:
> >
> >   http://chris.dev.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/324101.html
>
>
> I know a lot of people have just gone along with the display of
> photos on IMC UK and not bothered too much about it.  Since this has
> happened it would be great catalyst to try and sort out how we'd like
> to take things forward.
>
> It'd be great if other IMCistas could show us their solutions as well.
>
> mini mouse
>