stupid attached image JS popup

[schmism]

turn it off, give me an option to turn it off, something other than disabling JS on my end.

its extremely annoying to click on a attached image and have it pop up in the middle of my screen.

 

[TedLaRue]

schmism,

I don't think clicking on those thumbnails invokes JavaScript. It's your browser that's choosing to use a pop-up. Try right-clicking on the thumbnail and choosing whether you want the browser to open the image in the current window, or in another window, or in another tab. If your browser doesn't give you those options, you might want to look into using a different browser (FireFox or Opera, for example, they're free).

 

[MossRoad]

turn it off, give me an option to turn it off, something other than disabling JS on my end.

its extremely annoying to click on a attached image and have it pop up in the middle of my screen.

As mentioned, you can right click on it and choose to open it in a new window or tab instead of left clicking on it and opening it in the current window. Is that acceptable?

 

[schmism]

As mentioned, you can right click on it and choose to open it in a new window or tab instead of left clicking on it and opening it in the current window. Is that acceptable?

NO

as the default action untill some recent change, was to open it in the default window with a single lift click. (and then a single back click on my programed mouse button)

i dont want to have to go through 4 more steps left click, drag down find open in new window, release button, go find the tab, look at the tab, close the tab, find my TBN tab, click on tbn tab...

Before, users on dialup or other slow internet could crtl click on the immage to have it automatically loaded into a new tab "in the background" while they continued to surf the forum waiting for the immage to DL. Now it compleatly hogs the ENTIRE screen not allowing you to do anything but wait on it.

It was working perfectly fine before someone added some stupid JS view addon to VBS.

Either change it back or give me an option to turn it off, its simple!

speaking of which, why did we pay $170 to VBS just to remove the "Powered by vBulletin" at the bottom?

If we didnt then it needs to go back down there as at a voilation of the TOS of vBulletin

 

[aczlan]

as the default action untill some recent change, was to open it in the default window with a single lift click. (and then a single back click on my programed mouse button)

um, it still works for me to middle or ctrl click on a picture, and it then opens right up (this in Firefox 3.0 on a XP SP3 box)

Before, users on dialup or other slow internet could crtl click on the immage to have it automatically loaded into a new tab "in the background" while they continued to surf the forum waiting for the immage to DL. Now it compleatly hogs the ENTIRE screen not allowing you to do anything but wait on it.

I still have that behavior on FF3, however when I just tried it on IE7 it does not work, middle click or ctrl click just bring it up in the same window.


Aaron Z

 

[MikePA]

speaking of which, why did we pay $170 to VBS just to remove the "Powered by vBulletin" at the bottom?

Who is the 'we' you speak of?

 

[schmism]

schmism,

I don't think clicking on those thumbnails invokes JavaScript. It's your browser that's choosing to use a pop-up.

Thats a negative. THe action of "pop-up view" is the same across various browser platforms.

Additionally the "feature" goes away if you turn off JS.

<time passes>

after a little more digging, the attached photos are set to display with "Lightbox". Lightbox 2

Lightbox is a useful JavaScript, which allows you to watch photos in a semi-transparent overlay to your site. When you click on a link, the picture is shown above the content of your page, which frees you of limitations like columns.

when i say it was a feature recently added to the website and not a browser trick, i know what im talking about.

As this seems to be a "feature" they cant turn off, i simply loaded noscript for FF which blocks the JS call that lightbox uses.

disappointing that the user has to create there own solutions to these types of problems, but i suppose thats more then norm today.

 

[schmism]

Who is the 'we' you speak of?

well i assumed that "we" ment the uses of TBN that might have donated to the site to keep it running. but judging from the site, it generates positive cash flow from all the adds on the site, so i suppose "we the users" didnt pay anything.

 

[MossRoad]

Why are you so angry about a free website? Perhaps if you plead your case in a calm and cordial manner to the owners of the website you would get some positive feedback.

 

[Bird]

With Windows Vista, I'm so used to the right click, then left click on "Open in new tab" that it's become second nature; don't even think about it, and it doesn't take me very long either. But I had to try this new thing today and I don't see anything wrong with it, but I'll probably stay with what I've been doing.