New attachment handling

MacD · May 17, 2008

Hi

I noticed the new way to open attachments. The page fades down to dark and the attachment is shown in the middle of the page.
Thay may be cool to some degree but I use to Ctrl-Click an attachment to open it in a new tab. This won't work anymore now. Instead I wait and wait until it is loaded. Then Ctrl-F4 will not close the pic-tab but the original tab, I have to aim the X and click... that's pretty annoying for me.
Maybe this fading effect could be removed and we'll get back to the way where everyone can control how to open a link himself?
Greets
Mac

His Divine Shadow · May 17, 2008

I think the CTRL-Click will still work. Let me test this here.

Interesting, it does not work. That is somewhat of a bother. I don't know if you have a scroll-wheel mouse or not but using the scroll wheel to click attachment links will open attachments in new tabs as before. We can change the thing so that the lightbox (that's what this effect is) appears only when one hovers their mouse over the attachment, enabling clicking as before. I'll have to ask the bossmen what they think.

TMF Jeff · May 17, 2008

I think that would be better, to make it hover only, if at all. That's a pretty obnoxious, and unecessary additional step.

TMF Jeff · May 17, 2008

although I now see that you can still save the image from that image. I don't know, let's see how people feel about it.

MacD · May 17, 2008

Just to explain, I'm the last one to dislike innovations and cool stuff!
But some of those new gallery-tools are a little oversized for me.
I've seen flash galleries that are "cool" and whatever but you can't handle them anymore. You can see all kinds of effects and stuff, pictures are flying in and out and doing the most incredible things. Nice for the fist couple of pics - but you have a hard time just watching a set of images without effects (which comsume time) and go back to where you are.

I am curious what will happen :upsidedow

chicago · May 17, 2008

When you click on the attachment, the background does fade to black and the image appears larger in the center of the screen, but if you click that image after it's been enlarged, it will open up in another tab or window with a normal white background.

At least that is what happens when I try it.

I kind of like it this way for some reason, but I can see how people would find it annoying.

His Divine Shadow · May 17, 2008

I've switched the setting to hover. It will appear if you hover your cursor over the image thumbnail for a few seconds but will allow for ctrl+click to open it elsewhere. See if this is more to your liking, all.

lilyisticklish · Jun 9, 2008

I kinda liked the way it would pop up in the main screen personally... I miss that.

New attachment handling

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