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Re: LEGO SET GUIDE - The Big Picture ?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:40:20 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > Am I the only one bothered by this?
> > Not sure I'm "bothered" per se but I do agree that I find the images less
> > satisfactory now than before, and the extra steps to get a large image are
> > extra work.
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> Ya, I'm not bothered by it either, and the medium-sized default images aren't
> necessarily always smaller (most of the time they are, but not always -- it
> depends on the size of the originating scan). A smaller initial image makes
> for much quicker displays
Is this new? I'm pretty sure that when I looked at this the other day both the
big and small images linked to the same file - the smaller one was only
shrunk. I am also 100% sure that the 6990 image changed since yesterday.
Scott A
> , much less overall HTTP bandwidth, and of course it
> makes room for other interesting things. Most of the time, all you need is a
> small refresher image to jog your memory on what set is what, and you can
> always click for the larger image if needed. BTW, it's always been the
> intention to scale the large-sized images (which can sometimes be Really Huge
> -- see 1593[1], for example) down to reasonable sizes, just as the Fibblesnork
> LEGO Guide has always done, for example:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/space/set/6990-1.html
> http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/space/set/pic-6990-1.html
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> I think it will be nice to give some conflibbergibbets for alternate default
> sizes but I will need to pre-compute and store a variety of additional image
> sizes first before doing that. (Like 300x300, 400x400, 500x500, 600x600, • etc.)
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> --Todd
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> [1] This is 1593:
> http://guide.lugnet.com/set/1593 (DB page view)
> http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=1593&v=z (large image only)
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 | | Re: LEGO SET GUIDE - The Big Picture ?
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| (...) No and Yes. No, the code/feature is the same -- it has always (since the new set guide went up a few weeks ago) displayed the "larger" (where available) image when you click the medium-size image. Yes, the 6990 image changed yesterday -- I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO SET GUIDE - The Big Picture ?
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| (...) Ya, I'm not bothered by it either, and the medium-sized default images aren't necessarily always smaller (most of the time they are, but not always -- it depends on the size of the originating scan). A smaller initial image makes for much (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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