Forum Improvement: Thumbnail Image Handling

[thisnameistaken]

With Show Images switched off, when people use the IMG tag, all we get is a link to a thumbnail. Sometimes it's possible to modify the thumbnail image path to find the filename of the full-size image, but it's a pain.

Could the forum preserve the link from the embedded image, and instead of just showing the thumbnail path, show the full-size image path too/instead?

[Hankstar]

+1.5 and a scone :up:

[Bean0]

With Show Images switched off, when people use the IMG tag, all we get is a link to a thumbnail. Sometimes it's possible to modify the thumbnail image path to find the filename of the full-size image, but it's a pain.

Could the forum preserve the link from the embedded image, and instead of just showing the thumbnail path, show the full-size image path too/instead?

I haven't checked, but could it be that the actual image is a thumbnail ?
The clickable ones image hosts supply for posting on forums ?

[thisnameistaken]

I haven't checked, but could it be that the actual image is a thumbnail ?
The clickable ones image hosts supply for posting on forums ?

They're clickable because they're surrounded by <a>nchor tags, the thumbnail image on its own is useless because it doesn't tell you where the large image is. With Show Images off, what we get is a link to the thumbnail image, when we ought to get the link that would normally surround the embedded thumbnail image if you had Show Images switched on.

[thisnameistaken]

Wee bump now the weekend's over: Is this suggestion feasible?

[Bob Smith]

I've notified Vic of this thread, hopefully he'll post something once he's read it. :)

[Victor]

mm, well it's how vBulletin handles it. To change it i'll have to poke around in the scripts. Can have a look later today.

[thisnameistaken]

It's only an inconvenience, don't let it keep you from anything important.

Thanks Bob and Victor. :)

[Victor]

This isn't something simple i'm afraid. The way vbulletin caches posts makes it circumvent some bb_code parsing steps. And those are exactly the ones that require changing to make this work. And even then it'll be quite a trick to fix the problem.

PS, what vb actually does here is just replace the [img] with an anchor tag, while leaving the original anchor tag in-tact. If you look at the source you'll see <a "actual link"><a "image link"></a></a>. When you click that, your browser decides to use the inner link and discards the outer one.
Now with post caching, vb pre-parses the [url] tags, so you have <a "original link">[IMG]</a>. Then when you view a post here, vb parses only the [img] tag. The function that parses this tag doesn't know anything about other text in the post, or tags by which it is surrounded.

So that makes it a bit complicated. and I'm not that much of a vBulletin wizz.

[thisnameistaken]

Agh. Nasty. :(

Well it was just an idea. Thanks for taking the time to look at it, Victor.