| • KHammerstein | |
| Apr 24 2015, 11:20 PM |
| F156483: PortraitImages.png | |
| Apr 24 2015, 11:20 PM |
As a reader, I want to see larger images so that I can learn better through visuals along with text.
Change in-article images and thumbnails to be larger.
Phone: Full width of text column.
Tablet: Width of 400 pixels. (If image is at least 200 px)
Text wrapping behavior remains the same
Task completed on android app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94646
We need to decide how this will effect the page load times. We need to check whether images are small because they are styled that way or because we are loading images that are small.
Let's see what happened with the RFC about pregenerating thumbnails of standard sizes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails_sizes
Results of spike investigation are at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98387#1286815.
tl;dr: This feature will negatively affect performance and increase bandwidth usage, although there are steps we can take to mitigate some of those effects.