Recent interface changes

I noticed the Danbooru interface continues to have minor updates, but the latest changes don't seem to be as good as what was before. I don't know what was changed to cause this to happen, but now all pages (even the main post listing and the forum) have left-right scrolling (even though there's nothing there if you scroll right). Also I can no longer finish tagging an image by pressing 'enter' while the focus is on the tag box, that just makes a newline now so I have to actually click "Save changes". The tag box change was probably an artifact of making it multiple lines big (which is a plus) but still a little annoying.

Just giving some feedback for albert to do with what he wants.

I hear you on the second one (although I never do stuff that way), but the first thing doesn't happen for me. I don't see a horizontal scroll bar at all.

What resolution/browser are you on?

Boco said: but now all pages (even the main post listing and the forum) have left-right scrolling (even though there's nothing there if you scroll right).

Sounds like an issue on your end, I have no such thing on winxp/firefox. Weird.

Also I can no longer finish tagging an image by pressing 'enter' while the focus is on the tag box, that just makes a newline now so I have to actually click "Save changes".

Mmm... yeah that'll be a problem. I like the bigger tag box (a lot) but being able to just hit enter to save is much more of a time saver than it sounds.

Hmm, I do see one issue. On the list of posts, the thumbnails don't stretch across the whole screen. It seems like the whole site is fixed at a horizontal width, at least at high resolutions.

Can this go back to stretching with resolution? I *really really* liked getting a full page of thumbnails on one screen (1680x1050 resolution) without having to scroll down.

I noticed this too, I think what happened is the thumbnails are now fixed in a square, which I like. (I had always wondered what resolution Albert used, since the 16 images per page always showed up as 3 5-image lines and one extra image for me)

I can see how it would be a problem for people of different resolutions though. Too small = horizontal scroll bar, too large = excessive margins.

It would be nice if the number of pics / page could be variable, such that they would fill the screen regardless of resolution, but no more than that. I suspect this may have bad consequences regarding caching and or potential site-abuse hammering the DB. Maybe defined maximum limits could be used?

Boco said:
I don't know what was changed to cause this to happen, but now all pages (even the main post listing and the forum) have left-right scrolling (even though there's nothing there if you scroll right).

I've restored the percentage-based widths.

Also I can no longer finish tagging an image by pressing 'enter' while the focus is on the tag box, that just makes a newline now so I have to actually click "Save changes".

You can press tab and then enter. For me the advantage is I can see all the tags without scrolling a small text field. But I'll think about it.

albert said:
I've restored the percentage-based widths.

You can press tab and then enter. For me the advantage is I can see all the tags without scrolling a small text field. But I'll think about it.

I was gonna say tab and enter would be just as quick, and the extra space is really nice.

albert said: I've restored the percentage-based widths.

Yay, thanks.

You can press tab and then enter.

Ah, good to know, I'm used to before where tab took you into 'related tags'.

Definitely keep it as it is now! Having to his tab is a small price to pay for a more useful tag box! And a lot less work that moving hand to mouse and clicking save changes.

Hmm, no, tab still takes me out of the tag box and into "Related Tags". In order to tab to Save Changes I'd need to tab through all the related options, my saved tags, any any related tags showing.

jxh2154 said:
Hmm, no, tab still takes me out of the tag box and into "Related Tags". In order to tab to Save Changes I'd need to tab through all the related options, my saved tags, any any related tags showing.

Maybe a keyboard based solution (a la wikipedia) would solve the problem?

Thanks for the tab-return shortcut! It's just as fast as the old way, and I do like the larger tag box quite a bit. And the percentage widths of course fixed my scolling problem. (I'm on Firefox, WinXP, 1024x768, to the extent it matters, for people who were wondering).

Shinjidude said:
Maybe a keyboard based solution (a la wikipedia) would solve the problem?

That's a good idea. You can add the 'accesskey="s"' attribute to the save button, and it'll be possible to trigger it by pressing S with a modifier key (ctrl-S on the Mac, not sure about other platforms).