In recent years, the pictures people post to web communities have been getting bigger. Which in my opinion is generally a good thing, as I prefer to see larger images in general. But... most of the web hosting software being used for these sites does not make any attempt to adjust size to the display space available. With the myriad device sizes and resolutions available, I feel this has become a problem that needs to be fixed. I know enough CSS to be dangerous, but it seems to me a lot of it could be resolved with some judicious CSS. I realize some of the community hosting solutions (perhaps this one) do not always give much opportunity for the site admins to inject CSS. And perhaps some community members would object to a site limiting the display size. Yet to indiscriminately post larger than common viewport sizes and forcing users to scroll is even less desirable, from an artist presentation control point of view.
I have been trying to adjust this for myself through some kind of local override. These days I normally use Firefox on Windows 11 on a 2560x1440 laptop display. But experimenting with Edge (and thus likely Chrome) and on Windows 10 seems to have the same issues. You can adjust scaling in the browser but this also affects the text. Constantly zooming in/out is annoying and the browser tries to reflow the content for the changed zoom factor, which changes your position on the page and you end up viewing earlier/later positions in the thread. You can adjust scaling in the Windows, but that is global, also makes the images larger/smaller, and has side effects beyond the browser. There is a separate text size adjustment in Windows 11, but I have played with that and it introduces other complications and does not actually enable a solution. I tried playing with some Firefox about:config options but that did not have satisfactory results either.
If there is a solution I have overlooked, please share. I have no idea if this occurs on Linux, and even less on iOS but I am unlikely to switch to another OS anyway. My guess is that there is no solution I can implement for myself, so perhaps this post is just me venting some frustration.
I have been trying to adjust this for myself through some kind of local override. These days I normally use Firefox on Windows 11 on a 2560x1440 laptop display. But experimenting with Edge (and thus likely Chrome) and on Windows 10 seems to have the same issues. You can adjust scaling in the browser but this also affects the text. Constantly zooming in/out is annoying and the browser tries to reflow the content for the changed zoom factor, which changes your position on the page and you end up viewing earlier/later positions in the thread. You can adjust scaling in the Windows, but that is global, also makes the images larger/smaller, and has side effects beyond the browser. There is a separate text size adjustment in Windows 11, but I have played with that and it introduces other complications and does not actually enable a solution. I tried playing with some Firefox about:config options but that did not have satisfactory results either.
If there is a solution I have overlooked, please share. I have no idea if this occurs on Linux, and even less on iOS but I am unlikely to switch to another OS anyway. My guess is that there is no solution I can implement for myself, so perhaps this post is just me venting some frustration.
