At this point, I'm tired of this conversation.
Either pull the plug on V2 or don't. We've given the site operators AMPLE feedback on what's wrong (and what's right) about V3. Erik's got the ultimate decision to make; and once he's made his, I---like other paying members---will make mine.
I'm tired of the petulant attitude many protagonists here have for the people who have spent time and effort (not to just denounce and nay-say) in telling the developers what's deficient with V3. The Pro-V3 Propaganda Machine doesn't need to run 24/7. I'm not here to run a political coup. Neither is anyone else giving feedback. There's absolutely no need for LABELs--(haters gonna hate, people resistant to change, narrow-mindedness, and so on). Fine, pull the plug on V2 already! See what happens with my paid membership here.
Enough of the asinine behavior. For over eight months now I've been giving Erik and others here constructive feedback on what's wrong with V3. At nearly every point, someone has taken the time to throw a slur or derision in my general direction---some more demure than others. I've seen countless examples of others being slammed against the wall for doing the same here and in other forums. Martin, I'm sure you're a wonderful human being, but I find it extremely rare that you actually side with one of the posters highlighting a deficiency with V3. I know you're on the STAFF-side of things (even though you proclaim you're not officially staff)---that doesn't mean every item a negative post of V3 comes up, you need to be front-&-center rebuking the claim. Farbeit for you and others in the Pro-V3 Progoganda Team to respond with, "You know, that's a good suggestion; I'll see if we can get that thrown in to the code revision schedule before we go live"... but, that's exactly the kind of response that would engender GOOD feelings to all. A majority of the time we get labels thrown at us: haters, resistant to change, narrow-minded slobs, et. al.
I'm not picking on you personally, Martin, but you respond more often than others ... ok, so, yes, I am picking on you. Nevermind.
Anyway, I'm done here. Pull the plug or don't. At this point, I'm throwing my hands in the air and leaving it to Erik to make a command decision. Then, I will make my vote with my wallet.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
So, what is the responsive way to handle unknown file sizes? Tile, stretch, float? I think the method is somewhat subjective.
v2 just tiles the images. My guess they decided that wasn't the best so went with making all of them the same size (not sure if that also impacts the mobile website version or all resolutions).
And I'm pretty sure that the site has experienced developers. Design choices doesn't equate to not knowing how to do something.
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Version two offered the choice of what to do in terms of tiling or scaling. Version three just institutes the arbitrary choice of the designers. And I doubt that they were/are experienced. I would categorize them as arrogant and dismissive of anything and everything that used to comprise the site.
So when you assert that the programmers know what they're doing I can equally assert that they don't. :)