Need bigger pictures
For years, I’ve been sizing the “large” versions of the pictures on my blog to 1024(max) x 720(max). This last week I got my hands on a Nexus 10 (2560x1600) and they look sort of small and dingy.I haven’t had any quality time with an Apple Retina display, but I bet the same issues arise. This is going to require some study, and I bet my site’s pages are all going to have to become more complex. -T -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Need bigger pictures
Tim Bray wrote: For years, Ive been sizing the large versions of the pictures on my blog to 1024(max) x 720(max). This last week I got my hands on a Nexus 10 (2560x1600) and they look sort of small and dingy.I havent had any quality time with an Apple Retina display, but I bet the same issues arise. This is going to require some study, and I bet my sites pages are all going to have to become more complex. -T I've been having the same kind of thoughts. JavaScript display size sniffing and multiple versions of each image? The thought makes my skin crawl... -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Need bigger pictures
Which reminded me, Dunc wrote a piece on the subject back in August: http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2012/08/retina_ready Since my blog software is all hand-crafted, I smell some nasty-ish hacking in my future. But even worse than that is the fact that, over the years, I’ve been exporting all my pix from the RAW originals at 1024x720, so once the software’s done, I’m facing the task of going back and re-exporting them all. And to make it worse, in the early years of my blog I cleverly renamed them after exporting. (curls up in a corner whimpering) -T On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: Tim Bray wrote: For years, I’ve been sizing the “large” versions of the pictures on my blog to 1024(max) x 720(max). This last week I got my hands on a Nexus 10 (2560x1600) and they look sort of small and dingy.I haven’t had any quality time with an Apple Retina display, but I bet the same issues arise. This is going to require some study, and I bet my site’s pages are all going to have to become more complex. -T I've been having the same kind of thoughts. JavaScript display size sniffing and multiple versions of each image? The thought makes my skin crawl... -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Need bigger pictures
on 2012-11-18 19:19 Mark Roberts wrote Tim Bray wrote: For years, I’ve been sizing the “large” versions of the pictures on my blog to 1024(max) x 720(max). This last week I got my hands on a Nexus 10 (2560x1600) and they look sort of small and dingy.I haven’t had any quality time with an Apple Retina display, but I bet the same issues arise. This is going to require some study, and I bet my site’s pages are all going to have to become more complex. -T I've been having the same kind of thoughts. JavaScript display size sniffing and multiple versions of each image? The thought makes my skin crawl... i haven't dealt with it directly myself, but i've done a bit of reading on the subject and the default answer is to do a media query in your CSS; i assume (at some risk) this also works with Nexus 10 browsers this is one of the better articles i've read (though one could spend hours scouring for more thoughts): http://benfrain.com/how-to-serve-high-resolution-website-images-for-retina-displays-new-ipadiphone4/ (don't ignore the Jobsis observation toward the end) and this is pretty good too: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/20/towards-retina-web/ having a good CMS makes it a lot easier to adapt (i doubt this is news to Tim, though i know he rolls his own CMS so i can't say how hard it will be for him); on Drupal sites it's already typical for the server auto generate multiple sizes of an image when uploaded (thumbnail, body-width, full-res, etc.) so it's not too hard to add another size to this -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.