Posted by Rob White on 05/14/07 14:42

Thanks for your thoughts on the design of the page. I take your point
about the fized size of the page, I'll take a look at that later. The
light box stuff will be staying, it's what the target audience likes.
As to it causing the problem, I've already tried taking that off and
it made no difference.

Any other thoughts out there?


On 14 May, 14:14, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 14 May, 13:45, Rob White <Rob.J.Wh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When loaded directly in a
> > browser (IE7, Opera 9.20 and Firefox 2.0.0.3) theimageshow
> > correctly, but when shown as part of the page it shows with a
> > dimension of 120x71.
>
> I'm seeing the same effect, so I doubt if it's a cacheproblem(the
> usual culprit here).
>
> I suspect it's the results of your JavaScript lightbox script. Try
> removing the rel attribute for this thumbnail and trying again. That
> may disable the lightbox script which is, I think, running over all
> the gallery images and forcing their sizes. Try it simply with JS
> defeated too.
>
> Incidentally I hate this page:
>
> * It uses "letterbox scrolling" of one small area on the screen. I
> paid good money for this nice big monitor, don't try to stop me using
> it. Learn about "fluid design" and write a page that makes the best
> use of whatever space I give it.
>
> * When I try to view the mainimage, a load of tiresome crap happens
> and I get bored. I don't want to see cutesy greyed-out backgrounds, I
> don't want to see interactive curtain-opening effects and I certainly
> don't want to see animageloading throbber. Show me the damnedimage,
> and show it to me now!
>
> * There's a lot of invalid M$oft cruft in there too.

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