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What does “Images Ignore Screen Height” do?

https://lemmy.world/post/1363225

What does “Images Ignore Screen Height” do? - LemmyWorld

I have navigated image posts with the Appearance\Content\Images Ignore Screen Height setting both On and Off and I cannot determine what this does. Can anyone help me out and explain what this setting is meant to do?

Jul 11, 2023 at 10:14pmWeb
Show threadgreendakota99Jul 11, 2023
Thanks for the replies! This is what I’ve assumed it did but I guess I haven’t found a post yet to properly see the functionality.
Show threadNoodlesJul 11, 2023
idk for sure but I’d guess it’s if an image is taller than your screen you can either force it to fit or allow it to go beyond the screen; like you’ll have to scroll to get to the bottom of the image
Show threadArtemisJul 11, 2023
I believe this is correct. So an infographic for example would need to be scrolled before you get to the comments. If it doesn’t ignore screen height the preview will compress it making it look more narrow, working as more of a preview
Show threadpitninjaJul 11, 2023
Say, for example, somebody (not naming names) posts an image of beans whose aspect ratio is 10x taller than that of your screen’s… This setting makes it so that you have to scroll forever to get past it because it won’t resize its height to fit your screen’s display.
Show threadgkdJul 12, 2023

It will actually still conform a bit better than that, trying to stay at 90% of screen height. Otherwise you could have some super annoying images pop up. With the setting turned off images are scaled to 65% of screen height.

But yea, this is correct.

Show threadpitninjaJul 13, 2023
Ah okay, I see that I made an assumption of how memmy would behave based on the issue wefwef had to address the other day. I feel like this setting could possibly be worded a little better then because it certainly sounds as though all images would be their full height (and zoomed to fit the width of the user’s screen) with it enabled.