It should be a maximum size if anything, not just a fixed width that makes the page just overflow on windows smaller than 1045px.
THIS! I suppose when the screen is so wide that every paragraph becomes a single line... I just found hero999's images funny because if you force yourself to be objective for a moment, they both have the same amount of dead, empty whitespace:
Correct. On a properly formatted page for readability the text would wrap around the image.
Curious...
It's rather easy to tell HTML/CSS to wrap an image, but I don't think I've ever seen a forum which supports it.
Probably because it's just that little bit too fiddly (if you chain a bunch of pics on left and right alignments, and don't have enough text to fill in between, the whole flow is broken), and inline (paragraph style) images are "good enough", if sometimes wasteful of whitespace or left-right balance.
So, I don't have any problem with inline images. Heck, it's the LaTeX default, too. If it's good enough for Knuth...
Oh, and speaking of oversize images: it is nice that the forum normally avoids "blow-outs" by resizing images. Unfortunately, it does so the lazy way! A recent thread had
several pages of
enormous 3000-pixel-wide images stacked in it! What am I, made of bandwidth? Even users on high-end machines and fiber connections will have trouble downloading and rendering that page! You have to be an idiot to post that many camera-fresh photos! GAH!
So, it would be nice if a script turned large (over 800 or 1000 pixels width) images into links or thumbnails.
Of course, thumbnails would increase the processing and storage demands (which already includes
exactly this function for in-forum attachments, which is fantastic!), so I'd be happy with links.
(And, like I've said before, it would be nice to be able to post a YouTube link, just as a humble link and nothing more.
)
Tim