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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:24 am Post subject: Movie icon
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IIRC many moons ago there was some (possibly those still on dial-up) who complained that they were fed up at opening a thread to find it contained youtube/other videos and so slowed down their computers, thus the Gallery was conceived.
But there is still much confusion over the rules about how the Gallery should be used and there has been a few heated debates over the months.
Some think all videos should be posted there, 4x4/off-roading included: others (myself included) think that it should be for any non-4x4/off-road related stuff, eg music videos, funny videos. classic tv programmes etc, and that a video is 4x4 related ega greenlane outting or off-road event that it should be in the Events & Gatherings, or Trips Planning and Reports forums, or even in the Vehicle Specific forum.
I notice when I look down the list of threads in a forum that some have a paperclip next to them. This means that there is an attachment of some sort (usually a photo) somewhere in the thread. This appears automatically when a photo is embedded in a post.
Now, is there a way of having a Movie Camera Icon automatically appear whenever a youtube/other movie is embedded? Thus those who do not want to open threads containing youtube embedments can choose to ignore the thread, and the Gallery can be closed down.
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davew Articulating
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:43 pm Post subject:
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That would require some development and, if development is planned, it would probably be better to fix the problem by filtering the bbcode tags based on an option in the user's profile.
In other words if a user ticked a "low bandwidth" checkbox in their profile then instead of rendering youtube and img tags to the screen it would substitute them with a link. That way the thread's text content can be viewed and if an image or video is thought to be of interest they can click on the link to load it.
There is a similar mod for attachments that automatically displays a thumbnail instead of the original image.
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