davide|inkscapegallery wrote:
First of all, thank you for the strictness of your report, maybe i was unhappy when i've read for the first time but this is exactly what i need now.
You should not be. You can see after the first image I uploaded a couple more, so this is a sign of interest. Also you should see my report as a sign of interest, if I didn't cared, deleting the entire thread without reading is very simple.
I will try to answer to the many issues you remarked:
- an entire row of buttons at the top is aligned incorrectly (I use a
beta of Firefox 3), see: http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/inkscape_gallery.png
Wow, you're the second, i didn't test with firefox 3 and IMHO, it doesn't matter. This is a beta and it doesn't make sense to me working with a beta software to develop something.
Nope, this is a wrong approach. What matters is if the problem is caused by a bug in the browser in in the site layout. In a few months FF3 will be distributed to millions of users, so the bug should be solved, either in your website or in Firefox.
So, please use FF2, opera, konqueror or whatever you want that is a stable release and then inform me about layout issues (i didn't mention IE...and you know why). Hope you're not gonna find issues, obviously...
Sorry, but the SVG support in FF3 is so much improved (and FF3 is so much better as a general browser compared with FF2) that is no turning back for me.
- in the same place, you may consider displaying the license explanation
in a tooltip or pop-up, now a lot of space is wasted;
Do you think that is wasted? I mean, many people not even know exactly what a license is, i wanted to explain in depth every CC attribute and these needed space, but i think it is useful "space".
Sure, a lot of people don't know about CC licenses, but they have the opportunity to learn and make a choice about the favorite license at the first use of the site. On subsequent uses, they want to get as fast as they can to the upload form, the page space they have to scroll down is wasted. This is why I suggested explanation in pop-up windows.
- the file selector is titled "images" this is confusing: I upload one
image and then it says "If a new image is chosen, the current image will be replaced upon submitting the form", so I can upload an image or more images?
Yes, this is true i'll try to change. What happened is that i fixed the problem of "multiple values" of the image field a few days ago, i didn't notice this inchoerence and i'll try to fix. This is really a subtlety but i want to take care likewise.
I noticed this because at the first look I thought it will allow, like deviantART, to submit two files for an image: source SVG and preview PNG.
- I tried to upload a SVG, it allowed me to do so but the result wasn't
usable so I had to delete it and replace with a PNG, consider allowing to upload a SVG and a PNG preview (if you can't create the preview on the fly);
Ok, this is another issue. Inkscape gallery supports bitmap and not svg (i had to say browsers, not inkscape gallery...). I didn't pretend to give full svg support to a web
But browsers start to support SVG, you should look at Firefox 3, it is really good at this (and I heard nice tings about Opera but didn't test myself).
site that is not completely possible actually. So you have to export images and then upload to inkscape gallery. I know that others, like deviant art, provide svg support, but i know that is still incomplete and stumbling. I preferred not to fight with this, but giving a good way to show exported drawing. What i mean is that i plan to give the chance to upload the svg, maybe as an attachment if we think this to be useful. This is a poll, answer me...
Look at it from this point of view: people in this community cares about SVG. If all we want to do is share our graphics, there are plenty of places where we can do that. But we want more: promote the use of SVG.
- why limit images to 600x600 px? we may want to put wallpapers there;
Why?Cause this was what the layout tolerated, and because we pay a
Then is a problem with your layout.
I didn't say this earlier being afraid you will take it the wrong way, as a flamewar: the layout of your site, with one fixed-width column is not that good. I paid good money for a wide screen LCD and your site display content ony over half of my screen. And it does not allow me to post images made for display on my screen.
"standard" hosting, we can't use web space freely, but i will see what
Space? The space is cheap (really cheap on my Dreamhost account), bandwidth may be a problem. But your site is new, the bandwidth usage will increase with traffic in time and you can find solutions to cover the costs.
Also, we are talking about compressed images (PNG), the file resolution does not matter, but its content. Take as an example one of my uploads: http://test.inkscapegallery.net/files/images/buildings1.png Even after you resized it (from 640x480 to 600x450) it still have 332.8 KB. One can have 1600x1200 PNGs with smaller file size.
happens, if (i'm working to have this...) many of inkscape's users will post their work and their speeches on inkscape gallery i'll consider to provide a "special" account (not the same in flickr, you won't pay) to let you post bigger images.
But then, why I would want a "normal" account? I want from the start a "special" one, just to not have to deal later with upgrading it (the same rationale for why I see no reason for the current different roles).
I know this is not completely true, you may post big images in inkscape gallery even now, you just won't see the image in the original size...but i'm trusting in the user's good sense and then i will consider upgrading. This is a good point, why not opening a topic in the forum about that?
And subscribe to yet another forum which I will not follow later due to lack of time? Mailing list are more efficient (IMO).
- no screenshot for this, but I also have a display error for the footer
icons (CC, Drupal, nois3lab), they overlap the text.
Do you mean with firefox 3?
Yes, FF3
I don't know how to thank you for this, i think we can move this speeches on the web-site, i created forums for this purpose too. I know that some of you created account on inskcape gallery and i'm happy but... what are the others waiting for?
Maybe people apply the same policy you are using for FF3 and expect your site to come out of "test"?