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| PlainName:
Are you serious? Really? We chat about stuff on EEVBlog. Sometimes an illustration is useful, perhaps a photo or whatever. But those things take up space and are secondary - we may not be arsed to look, and once seen we probably don't need to keep seeing them. This is not pinterest.com, nor is it tiktok. Photos and stuff don't reflow and take time to download (again!) and make the text of long pages jump around as they get belatedly loaded. The solution is to have thumbnails, which don't get in the way but if one is interested it is really very easy to just click on it and see it in a bigger format. Doesn't someone keep apologising for walls of text? And yet what we have here is a bloody photo of a wall of text, and it's blown up bigger than normal to boot! Well, that's his choice and it would be fine if it were a thumbnail. Oh, bless my soul, there IS a thumbnail but clearly no-one can be trusted to remember to click that every time the page loads, so he has to fill my page with a photo I'm not interested in any more just so I can get to see what someone actually says. --- Quote ---so that everyone can immediately see what I'm referring to --- End quote --- Sometimes, and it's rare and only when there are a lot of images with explanatory text, a thumbnail embedded in the body of the post is useful. In this case the things were at the end of the text anyway, just ahead of the bloody thumbnails! But a clever chap like you surely knew all that anyway. |
| pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 29, 2022, 02:50:33 pm ---We chat about stuff on EEVBlog. Sometimes an illustration is useful, perhaps a photo or whatever. But those things take up space and are secondary - we may not be arsed to look, and once seen we probably don't need to keep seeing them. This is not pinterest.com, nor is it tiktok. --- End quote --- And yet at many times when one writes about a problem with a circuit and does not supply the schematic, the first thing that's asked is "where is the schematic, because it makes it much easier to understand what we are talking (actually writing) about". Or do you have pictures of that, because "they say more than a 1000 words". :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD |
| Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 29, 2022, 02:50:33 pm ---Are you serious? Really? --- End quote --- Yes, but not photos of text. I was more thinking of the schematics I've attached to some of my posts in the Beginner forum. --- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 29, 2022, 02:50:33 pm ---Doesn't someone keep apologising for walls of text? --- End quote --- Yeah, because I know it irritates some members, and even though I'd like to avoid it, I cannot. So it is an acknowledgement that my comms style is lacking. --- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 29, 2022, 02:50:33 pm ---And yet what we have here is a bloody photo of a wall of text, and it's blown up bigger than normal to boot! Well, that's his choice and it would be fine if it were a thumbnail. --- End quote --- I seriously dislike text-as-pictures, because it renders poorly and tends to look like I had soap in my eyes or something. I honestly didn't know if you (plural, you all) were referring to this particular case, the more general case of funny-but-not-important-to-the-post photos and images, or all images. --- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 29, 2022, 02:50:33 pm ---But a clever chap like you surely knew all that anyway. --- End quote --- It's not cleverness, it is social awareness. Only my directness/honesty about it saves me in real life from the gaffes I occasionally make because my social awareness is a bit limited. Not to any degree of actual diagnosis, but to the degree often encountered in e.g. absent-minded professors and mad scientists. I wouldn't mind being called a mad scientist, really. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on July 29, 2022, 03:31:56 pm --- --- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 29, 2022, 02:50:33 pm ---We chat about stuff on EEVBlog. Sometimes an illustration is useful, perhaps a photo or whatever. But those things take up space and are secondary - we may not be arsed to look, and once seen we probably don't need to keep seeing them. This is not pinterest.com, nor is it tiktok. --- End quote --- And yet at many times when one writes about a problem with a circuit and does not supply the schematic, the first thing that's asked is "where is the schematic, because it makes it much easier to understand what we are talking (actually writing) about". Or do you have pictures of that, because "they say more than a 1000 words". :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD --- End quote --- That's what the attachment facility with thumbnails is for. |
| pcprogrammer:
Then you must really hate the TEA thread. That one is full of pictures within the body, and they get quoted a lot :) |
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