by BillBixby » Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:35 pm
Chris Peterson wrote:Guest wrote:Beautiful image! One bit of feedback for APOD: it would be nice (not just for today's image, but more generally) if clicking the image brought one to a high-res version of the image. I like to download and collect APOD images, for use as desktop images, but I often have to track down the high-res version myself from the photographer's website. Thanks!
Almost always, clicking on the main page image
does take you to a higher resolution image. It may not always be the
highest resolution image available, but that's just good page design. Under normal circumstances, simply clicking an image shouldn't result in receiving a very large file.
My Modus Operandi is similar to what Chris wrote above. In one tab I open the APOD. Then
Right Click the mouse on the picture and open that in a second tab. Third, I
Right Click on the "Discuss" link and open that in a third tab.
Now I have three tabs of APOD and go back to the first tab and read the information given, and have the picture in the second tab to refer to as needed. Also, the cursor on the second (the picture) tab is a +/- which changes the picture to high resolution or back to full picture.
After reading the information for the APOD picture and viewing the picture I proceed to the discussion tab and read the comments made about the picture and information provided. Often the discussion involves things I did not see, notice, or that brings up other points and I drop back to the first or second tab for clarification.
[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="Guest"]Beautiful image! One bit of feedback for APOD: it would be nice (not just for today's image, but more generally) if clicking the image brought one to a high-res version of the image. I like to download and collect APOD images, for use as desktop images, but I often have to track down the high-res version myself from the photographer's website. Thanks![/quote]
Almost always, clicking on the main page image [i]does [/i]take you to a higher resolution image. It may not always be the [i]highest [/i]resolution image available, but that's just good page design. Under normal circumstances, simply clicking an image shouldn't result in receiving a very large file.[/quote]
My Modus Operandi is similar to what Chris wrote above. In one tab I open the APOD. Then [u]Right Click[/u] the mouse on the picture and open that in a second tab. Third, I [u]Right Click[/u] on the "Discuss" link and open that in a third tab.
Now I have three tabs of APOD and go back to the first tab and read the information given, and have the picture in the second tab to refer to as needed. Also, the cursor on the second (the picture) tab is a +/- which changes the picture to high resolution or back to full picture.
After reading the information for the APOD picture and viewing the picture I proceed to the discussion tab and read the comments made about the picture and information provided. Often the discussion involves things I did not see, notice, or that brings up other points and I drop back to the first or second tab for clarification.