On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Christoph Derndorfer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:31 PM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 16:07, Christoph Derndorfer >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > If jumping over these extra hurdles bring a lot of value and can be >>> described >>> > in simple terms then I'm all for it >>> >>> Good point. I see you're writing "MISSING IMAGE", that's fine too. >>> My alternative lets a writer show a placeholder image, see >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Skierpage#Placeholder_images . Either >>> way makes it easy to find missing images. >>> >>> I documented both under >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images >>> >>> I notice the instructions say 800px wide screenshots. I think it's >>> faster/better to leave them at 1200 wide and tell the HTML or markup >>> to display them smaller. >>> >> >> Hi there, >> >> thanks a lot for adding the instructions to >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images, much appreciated. >> >> As for the width of the screenshots we chose the 800px wide because that >> works well for consumption on the XOs (as it leaves plenty of space for a >> menu, etc.). >> > > When a 1200x900 pixel image is uploaded to the wiki and then displayed at > an alternate size, such as with the [[File:Screenshot wanted.png|800px|* > ActivityName* screenshot]] wiki code, then the wiki resizes and saves a > .png copy of the image at 800 pixel width in an /images/thumb/ branch > folder. > See, for example, all the sizes saved here: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/thumb/9/95/Journal_tag_mockup_frm_gary_v1.png/ > > (Direct navigation to the thumb branches on wiki.laptop.org has been > blocked. One only sees the message, "Down for upgrades. Come back > tomorrow!") > > The 120px and 320px images are saved for the thumbnail and preview on the > File page. The others are generated when a new cropping width is requested > by some wiki code. This allows the wiki server to cache the images for > better performance. This also means that the XO laptop, or any browser > does not need to process the original image size. > Hi Fred, sorry for the slow reply. Re-reading your message now I'm not sure what exactly you're suggesting here. It sounds to me like getting the thumbails out of the wiki afterwards is a bigger hassle than taking the 15 seconds it takes to resize the original image and upload that one. Or am I missing something here? Thanks, Christoph > --Fred > > I see little value in keeping the 1200px wide version (with the exception >> of reducing one step in the image work) as we can't count on having the >> manpower to do extensive post-processing, resizing of all images, funky >> exporting, etc. once everyone leaves here in just over 48 hours... >> >> Christoph >> >> -- >> Christoph Derndorfer >> >> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] >> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] >> contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] >> >> e-mail: [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: [email protected]
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