Originally posted by JeffG
Unless you want to make us all squint, you might want to post the link to the full-sized image instead of the thumbnail, Andrew.

Originally posted by Andrew
http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/thumbnail/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg (http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg)

That's what I posted. Anyone else not seeing the full-size image when you click the thumbnail?

The image files have the same name, but the thumbnail is in a ./thumbnail directory. Maybe your browser is caching based on the filename?

When I'm logged in, the picture doesn't show up because I have that turned off on my account. When I click on the link (which, btw, does have the "thumbnail" directory in the address), it goes to a tiny picture. When I'm not logged in, the thumbnail picture shows up, and then when I click on the thumbnail, the big picture comes up.

Does that help?

You are linking directly to the JPEG file in the message, Andrew. In order for it to be clickable to get to the full sized image, you would have to link to an HTML page that displayed the image as a hotlink. At least to my knowledge, there is no way to encode a link into a JPEG itself.

I did manage to deduce that this is the link to the full-sized image:

http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg

-Jeff

Originally posted by JeffG
You are linking directly to the JPEG file in the message, Andrew. In order for it to be clickable to get to the full sized image, you would have to link to an HTML page that displayed the image as a hotlink. At least to my knowledge, there is no way to encode a link into a JPEG itself.

We've now gone way off-topic for this thread, but here is the vBcode I used (and have used many times in the past with no ill effects):

http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/thumbnail/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg

This is equivalent to:

<a href="http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg"><img src="http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/thumbnail/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg"></a>

Valid HTML. Don't understand why it's not working...

Are you using Netscape, Andrew? I just tried looking at this thread in Netscape 4.79 (the age of the version I have installed shows how often I use it...) and found that the thumbnail shows up embedded in your post and does link to the full-sized image. Using Internet Explorer 6.0 (my usual browser), I just see a text link to the thumbnail and no embedded image.

It looks to me like that encoding isn't working as intended with IE. Doing a "view source" this is how the HTML is coming out:

<a href="http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/thumbnail/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.project-insomnia.com/images/thumbnail/040201_fantasyland_theatre_mirror.jpg</a></a>

It seems to be getting formed as kind of a weird link to a link. I'm not surprised that the browsers seem to be unsure (and inconsistent) in how they are interpreting this. I wonder if this has uncovered a bug in the vBulletin software...

-Jeff

Originally posted by JeffG
Are you using Netscape, Andrew? Opera (http://www.opera.com/)
Using Internet Explorer 6.0 (my usual browser), I just see a text link to the thumbnail and no embedded image.

That explains why you thought I hadn't linked to the full-size, anyway.

It seems to be getting formed as kind of a weird link to a link. I'm not surprised that the browsers seem to be unsure (and inconsistent) in how they are interpreting this. I wonder if this has uncovered a bug in the vBulletin software...

Actually I think it's due to you having inline images turned off in your profile. That makes vB turn an inline image into a link, which overrides the URL tag wrapping the inline itself.

You probably didn't have a MousePad cookie in your Netscape browser, so you saw the inline image which linked to the full-size.

Next time I'll provide a text link in addition to the image link!

I'm using Mozilla Firefox and it works just fine.

Originally posted by Andrew
Actually I think it's due to you having inline images turned off in your profile. That makes vB turn an inline image into a link, which overrides the URL tag wrapping the inline itself.


Ah, that is exactly what it was. I had completely forgotten that I had turned those off. I can't even remember what it was that got me annoyed enough to do so. :)

I guess this does show the value of using text links instead of (or at least in addition to) thumbnails...

-Jeff