Talk:The World Before the Flood

"multiple image" size

 * I've shrunk down many and many an oversized image in my time, but here I take a different tack. I think the "multiple image" comparison should be larger. I say this for two reasons: first, the whole point is to compare details side by side, which entails being able to see the details. Second, I think that pair should clear out the text around it, so the paragraph beginning "In a preliminary study" can't get bunched up to the left. Just a thought. &bull; Arch&diams;Reader 13:11, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * How does this look? (Any larger, and it will play havoc with people reading on iphone screens, as well as creating the nonsensical situation where the same image is shown larger in the body text than in the lead.) I think this works well—and also serves as a good physical break between the description of the composition of the painting, and the paragraph on the development of the composition. RexxS, are you aware if laying it out in this non-standard way causes any WP:ACCESS issues? (I can't think of any, but there may be some.) – iridescent  20:41, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I can't see any accessibility issues that would arise from that layout. Functionally, I've looked at it in vector and monobook skins at widths from 700px to 3200px and it works as expected. Below about 800px horizontal scroll bars appear, but that's nothing unusual for our articles. The images are large enough for my diminished eyesight to make out the differences that the images illustrate, and the multiple image format with a shared caption seems to fit perfectly what is needed to compare two images. I wouldn't call it "non-standard" at all. For what it's worth, once you've set the alignment to "center", you don't need the - because the multiple images are no longer floating and the subsequent text has to display below the images. HTH --RexxS (talk) 21:44, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that—I'll leave it like this unless someone raises a legitimate objection I haven't thought of. (I know forces a break in the body text but included the just in case someone in the future decides to left-align the box. It's not like it's causing any damage other than adding a tenth of a millisecond to the page-parse time.) –  iridescent  21:51, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, it's all done with css now, rather than , but the effect ends up the same. As you say, it avoids any future problem if someone decides that left-align might look better. --RexxS (talk) 22:07, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh yes. Much better. Thank you both. &bull; Arch&diams;Reader 23:16, 17 June 2015 (UTC)