is it possible to make the next previous image selection a swipe on my iphone?
This lightbox is actually making it much harder to have a pleasurable viewing/reading experience browsing xenforo.com on the iPhone now. It makes the reason for having a dedicated mobile style soon even bigger.
oh man, just pulled it up on my iphone. doesnt even show up, you get a blue question mark where the image is supposed to be, with the filmstrip of thumbs underneath. makes it completely unviewable on mobile phones.
Okay, here's my feedback on the newly implemented lightbox (see: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/lightbox-test.9596/):
(I understand this is just the first version of the lightbox and improvements will be coming. Great we have this now in XenForo!)
- Can somebody explain to me why it is needed/handy to display all the images of the whole thread into the lightbox at once? In a real-life situation/the way I use forums I do not want to be confronted with all the images from the entire thread. Why? Because for me the context will be lost then. When people post images in their posting, they add explanatory/introducational text to it: this is the context. When I see the lightbox giving me all the images in the whole thread, I don`t have a clue what I am looking at.
See the examples here: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
Imagine that one of the 'Single Image' is an image posted in 1 single particular posting in a thread. I want to be able to click on that and that the lightbox presents me that image (and that image only) on it's own. Imagine the 'Image set' in that example to be 4 images in 1 single particular posting. I want to be able to click on one of those images and that the lightbox presents me that images and all other 3 in that posting (and only that posting, because this is where my focus and context is!) I understand others have different needs, but I can not think of any situation where I (on my platform) need to see all the images of the entire thread presented to me. In fact, when I come accross a site that has a highslide or whatever that presents me with all the images from 1 entire page/thread I find it really confusing to be honest.
I believe such functionality will work great in a Gallery-environment (where the focus is on the images instead of the text), but this is forumsoftware (where the focus is on the text or a combination of the text and the images, most of the time). I hope maybe an ACP option can be provided for those people who want to show only the current images per post inside the XF Lightbox. That (at least for me) would make it really useful.
-- I am not quite liking the transparency level of the black background of the XF lightbox. Just take a small attachment/picture and then view it from the lightbox. It looks rather messy to me and is not really that beneficial for a pleasurable viewing experience.
Example is this: go to the 1st posting in http://xenforo.com/community/threads/lightbox-test.9596/ and then view the photo with the phone booth in it. You will see that the background image which is 'shining' through the transparency distracts way to much from the photo in the forefront. The photo should get the emphasizes, but my eyes are trying to make out what is shown in the background. Not good.
-- (more to come...)
This is surely needed, because:- if a picture is loading, a "busy-sign" like everywhere else in XF should be shown
pics are loading pretty slow.....
I always hated it with a passion that lightboxes would resize with the content they are showing and thus making the navigation-arrows move to another position every single time an image had a different size. Yuk. I am there to watch the image, not to spend (too much) time moving my mouse around to click on yet another positioned arrow...If possible have the navigation tabs be in the exact same place regardless of picture size, right now they move around
-would it be possible to control next/prev with keyboard arrow keys?
This is great! I really love how all attachments from the entire thread can be seen at once... although there should be some sort of separation to illustrate that the attachments are from different posts.
Nice work. [IMG]http://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png[/IMG]
Really nice.
I think its picking up smilies too...[IMG]http://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png[/IMG]
That has now been fixed.It would be logical that the lightbox is always on the foreground to prevent situations like this.
same here on a macbook 13", firefox 3.6.13The bottom of the lightbox is cut off on my laptop screen (1280 x 800) with large images.
The bottom of the lightbox is cut off on my laptop screen (1280 x 800) with large images.
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