Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #15 – June 12, 2016, 09:53:27 pm
Well if by "really made the page layout jump about" you mean the expansion pushed the adjacent blocks to another line then sure, that's what expand in place will do. That doesn't bother me personally*, as long as nothing else happens. Everything else on the page should behave nicely. If it doesn't, something is wrong (which will be fixable anyway). *I like the image to expand within post width, so I can see it without disrupting anything else. Admittedly this is just personal preference though.
Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #16 – June 13, 2016, 03:44:02 am
emanuele
Global Moderator
I'm not a fan of highslide, but I never liked the old expand in place either to which I tend to prefer the highslide.
Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #18 – June 13, 2016, 08:04:05 am
An highslide, with some kind of "normal" speed, configurable by admin (so that if you want it to be faster you can make it faster, or slower), with some mopped up markup as antechinus suggested. That, would do.
Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #19 – June 13, 2016, 08:11:36 am
emanuele
Global Moderator
Sorry, but I'm failing at understanding what you mean by "slow". Here it loads the overlay in the blink of an eye (without any effect of sort), and then the image is loaded at the speed of the itnernet connection. What's so slow about that?
Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #21 – June 15, 2016, 01:48:17 am
I do think that if you are going to use a highslide type of display, it should have the ability to scroll through all images in that post. Having to jump in and out of black pages/normal pages for every image in one post would be really annoying.
Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #22 – June 15, 2016, 10:17:16 am
Blow 'em up image displays look very cool on a desktop. On the flip side, I find they're often horribly broken on mobiles. This is a huge concern as better than 75% of my traffic is from mobile users. Proper mobile rendering is key!
Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #25 – June 16, 2016, 07:39:16 pm
Sibling rivalry is out. Enter dev rivalry!
Re: Highslide-style attachment thumbnail expansion in 1.1
Reply #28 – June 17, 2016, 04:35:25 pm
Just defer the loading if you put it in the header, so that you won't have to wait for that to load up to see the actual page (=faster).