Clicking an image link replaces current page with view of image. Then if using the back button to return from the image, and RP or litphoria page can or always shows a cached version of the page which is often different (older with missing content or posts) than the page shown before navigating the link. The user must then refresh the page, assuming they realize that they are viewing an out of date page.
created: 28 January 15 at 09:00 PM (build: 1/28/2015 8:04 PM alpha)
closed: 01 February 15 at 03:14 AM (build: 2/1/2015 3:09 AM alpha)
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
You don't need to prefix a feedback item with "bug:" or "suggestion:" --- it's implied!
I'm of two minds about this. If you wanted it in another tab you could just as easily right-click -> open in new tab.
You can right click. With a mouse. If you remember. But that is not the default, normal thing to do, and you have to get in the habit of it. It wouldn't be terrible as it is, but when coming back to the litphoria page, you often need to do a refresh, depending on if the page changed recently, which is basically always true for chat channels.
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
Your browser will cache the roleplays, yes, which is fixable. When you connect and the next post comes in it'll automatically fix itself as well.
Or there could be something else. Hovering a link that leads directly to an image opens a 'frame' on top that loads the image, without showing a new window. Touch screens not having the On-Hover feature would still have to open the link, so Phone/Tablet browsers not compatible with such feature would not be affected or something.
Still, my preference has always been, on all sites that it opens in a new tab without interrupting the page I'm on, when it is an image link. Plus you may want to leave that open in the other tab
Also, another thing... when you have a 3 button mouse, middle-click opens the link in a new tab. :P
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
I think Pascal is talking more like a tooltip with an image in it instead of a lightbox.
Yes, Wrecked Avent guessed my idea. A floating tooltip with an image in it. You can still click to open the real thing in any tabs or anything.
I'm just wondering, because I'm not savvy with coding and stuff, but would something like that make it hard to click the links on a mobile device like a cellphone? If I'm a minority in using my cellphone to browse the site then it doesn't really matter and I can deal, but yeah. I was just curious!
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
Mobile use is definitely a consideration for every feature pushed out, and is only ignored if it would not be feasible (or meaningful) to support on mobile devices.
I don't believe this would be any different on a mobile though, you'd get a new tab just like a desktop browser.
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