Testing Notes | May 29th 2007 | MonkeyBoy
Lightbox Stuff
Been sanity testing tonight and I noticed something funky in regards to lightbox and wpg2 tags. (this may be totally unrelated to the recent changes but I think things are behaving differently as compared to a few days ago). During the lightbox testing session I test using both the internal lightbox scripts and an external one (mine…). I noticed that as soon as I turn on lightbox support for wpg2 tags the url that is generated is to the full size image (i.e. downloaditem). While this works fine with internal lightbox support becuase we can resize it using midsize images (which is way cool btw…), when using an external lightbox script it now displays the lightbox image as a massively huge image.
ozgreg - Is it easy to do a quick check after you turn on wpg2 lightbox tag support that checks to see if the user is using internal or external lightbox support? If lightbox=external then generate a url that points to the already generated midsized image instead of the full size image. If lightbox=internal than generate a link to the full size image and resize it per the option in the wpg2 lightbox tab. Catch my drift? I think this may be a better solution for the folks that want to use an external lightbox script.
Widget Stuff
I think pulling all the config options from the widgets is a good move but the only widget option we might was to give users is the option to name the block. (i.e. what is contained in the H2 tag) That is handy and allows users to personalize their stuff a little.
G2 Image
Everything looks good here so far, but I’m still testing some stuff… As you get closer to final code base for the 3.0 release, I would be happy to dig in a little and see if there is anything I can do to “pretty up” the G2image box and make it blend a little more with the wp look and feel.
Cheers Boys!
May 31st, 2007 at 1:25 am
MB,
In regards to the fullsized image being returned actually no this is not correct, in the lightbox support you will see a lightbox image size, this is the MINIMUM size the lightbox image will try to return, if only you have a fullsized image then you are only going to get a fullsized image back.. See the midsized images here @ this site to see what I mean…
May 31st, 2007 at 8:23 am
thbbbbbttttt….
you are right… 
I didn’t configure the “Minimum Lightbox Image Size:” because it said ” < – Only Valid when (internal) Lightscript is Enabled” and I was using an external lightbox plugin… 
Maybe we should remove the disclaimer? As it works for both internal and external lightbox stuff?