Userscripts.org

I've gone ahead and allowed script authors to upload screenshots to their scripts.

Right now all of the images show up in a gallery I added (css patches wanted :P) to the top of the script page.

Features I'm thinking of adding:

* images can be marked as not part of the gallery, and instead added in the script description manually by the script author. (in the admin tab of the script you can see links to the thumb/medium/large version of the image)

* an image can be selected as the icon/logo/main image. Eventually it will be shown on the script listing pages.

* Clearer limits. I fail silently if you try to upload a file larger than 2MB, or the image isn't a png/gif/jpg.

Thoughts?

Sweet deal.

Looks great - a much-needed feature, IMO. Thanks!

Only problem I seem to be having is animated gif's don't animate. Looks like the problem isn't with the display in the 'about' tab, but with how it's being hosted. Is this a known limitation?

Also, being able to mark screenshots as not part of the gallery is definitely a good idea, as is having a logo image for a script.

WOW! I'm looking forward to this...

There is a new admin tab on your script page.

Okee dokee... though I was initially looking under the scripts metadata... will try it when I get back in a few hours. Thankx.

You going to allow inline CSS of the image too for insertion into later parts of the script description? It would be really nice to have access to float and background CSS.

Chicago_gang... wrote:
Suggestions:
There should be a way to reorder the images and edit their captions. Also, why are the left/right arrows on the screenshots invisible (unlike addons.mozilla.org)?

I'll work on adding arrows.

The images aren't hosted on userscripts.org because I'm already close to the 2TB per month this server has. Instead it is using Amazon S3 since it only costs me $0.17 per GB sent.

What about adding an h3 header to it (like it is in the guides with "users mentioned" and "scripts mentioned"), and place it at the end of the page (so script descriptions come first)? This would make it conform with the other elements on the site. Optionally, you could place a link "screenshots" below the meta data summary.

IzzySoft wrote:
What about adding an h3 header to it

I'm working on making it so you can host images on userscripts but not use my built in gallery feature (mark images as part of gallery, move them around in the gallery, remove them from gallery but don't delete, ...)

Jesse Andrews wrote:
I'm working on making it so you can host images on userscripts but not use my built in gallery feature (mark images as part of gallery, move them around in the gallery, remove them from gallery but don't delete, ...)

Wahhh thumbnails! I kinda liked it when I could see the medium-size screenshots directly on the script's About page (width ~600). This popup to see the full image takes a while to load, so a quick peek at a script now takes longer.

Call me dirty, but I like the kind of images that when you click them, toggle between being thumbnail and full size (and are pre-loaded of course!).

Or even just on mouseover, like the "Large Images" userscript series, which makes browsing much faster and easier.

Anyway the screenshot feature is great, making it easier to explain what a userscript does.

Jesse,

Great job adding screen shots to user script pages! I LOVE IT!

I just logged in today and noticed, added screenshots and they worked better than I even expected! (thus allowing me to take out the html-coded screenshot section and clean up my page)

Really...EXCELLENT job with the layout and especially the viewer.

CHEERS!!!

Best regards,
GD

Yes, it is a great idea, but as others have said before it would be a nice if we could change the captions of the pics. ;)

Thanx!

Don't know why people don't like it being hosted on s3, but you can make it look like you do by pointing a dns record to s3. As described in

http://spattendesign.com/2007/10/24/setting-up-...

Under the header "Set up your asset hosts"

Captions are editable now. Now working on allowing re-ordering and removing from the built-in gallery (so you can include them manually in the description)

Jesse Andrews wrote:
Captions are editable now...

@Jesse,

Just out of curiousity, why does user Photodeus have one visible screen shot on this script, but when viewed there's a previous photo? TIA

Must be the thumbnail I uploaded too.

Odd... your right... I thought the avatars were handled by gravatar... mine is at least.

It's not an avatar, but an icon for the script itself.

right, it is the icon. should it not be in the gallery? The idea was you could upload a large version (640x480) and I would reduce to 120x90 for the icon, but if you click it you can see the original version...

Jesse Andrews wrote:
it is the icon. should it not be in the gallery?

If I have some pictures in a certain order and I want to update one, for example, nº3 (6 total), I have to reupload picture nº4, 5 and 6 to mantain this order.

Would be good to update them without reuploading.