Discussion Forum: Thread 206530

 Author: Jan_K View Messages Posted By Jan_K
 Posted: Jun 10, 2016 03:38
 Subject: Bring back(!) extended descriptions!
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Jan_K (1657)

Location:  Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Member Since Contact Type Status
Mar 7, 2001 Member Does Not Allow Contact Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: ABS store
See:

http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=992401

The extended descriptions are barely "visible" any longer - see this example
in my store:
http://www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=Jan_K&itemID=93498204

The small link "[More]" neesds to be clicked (unlike before, when you accessed
a listing through the price guide:
http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=11140
or throuch a wanted item notification!) - and the result is a lame, tiny popup
window where all text and images are squeezed in.

I noticed that you can expand the actual description field a little (in vertical,
but not in horizontal extent) - but all embedded images (which I use a lot for
accurate item desriptions of valuable sets!) are squeezed into this tiny window.
A real pain!

So two steps to be done:

1) make the extended description visible immediately when a listing with exteded
description is accesses through a direct link (be it from the catalog entry,
the price guide or a wanted item notification) - AND

2) Replace this insufficuent popup view by the inline description as it was before
- with full size images embedded into the text, not scaled down to 699 Pixels
width. We are not in the VGA/SVGA/XGA era any longer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution#Computer_monitors

Jan

P.S.: Why are the "standard" Bricklink URLs in forum posts like this one not
clickable any longer? I needed to add "http://" manually to make them clickable...

Jan