Slowgeek Forums Topic: Large weather icons and blurred text http://forums.slowgeek.com/ Slowgeek community en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:25:08 +0000 evan326 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-695 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:24:14 +0000 evan326 695@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Awesome, thanks guy!

rlerdorf on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-694 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:04:32 +0000 rlerdorf 694@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

evan326 said:
I know it's not terribly important, but I stopped getting the icons on my runs in November I noticed. What did I do to screw it up?

You picked a weather station that doesn't provide condition data. I have fixed it.

evan326 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-693 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:06:27 +0000 evan326 693@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

I know it's not terribly important, but I stopped getting the icons on my runs in November I noticed. What did I do to screw it up?

ethan160222 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-482 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:30:15 +0000 ethan160222 482@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Love the per-run weather override! Thanks!

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-481 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:33:09 +0000 ATJ777 481@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

OK, I have set some of the weather stations. I wait with baited breath for the lookup mechanism.

rlerdorf on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-476 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:22:24 +0000 rlerdorf 476@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

You can now set your weather station on a per-run basis on the /ru page. Click on the weather station in the table below the run image. Still not quite done. I want to add a weather station lookup mechanism and clean up a few edges, but you can use it to fix the weather station for your runs now.

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-475 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:09:41 +0000 ATJ777 475@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Yes, thanks. Much better.

I now think the Ctrl+/Ctrl- was a furphy. It just depended on whether I had the icons or not.

rlerdorf on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-474 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:39:46 +0000 rlerdorf 474@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

That should be fixed now.

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-473 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:08:44 +0000 ATJ777 473@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

OK. It just got more weird: http://andrewtrevor-jones.com/slowgeekgraphs.png

Most of the graphs are now the correct size, but the first one is scaled up a bit. There are others like that. I have done a shift refresh. It appears to be all the graphs that don't have weather icons on them. If they have a weather icon they are scaled correctly. If there isn't, they are larger.

Bingo. I worked it out. Images that have the weather icon are 660x260px. Images that don't are 650x250px. The source forces the image to 660x260px, so those without icons get scaled up slightly.

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-472 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:01:40 +0000 ATJ777 472@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

The weird thing is that now I'm back on my large LCD, the graphics look blurred again. It appears that it is the profile page that is doing the scaling, because Ctrl+ or Ctrl- can't fix it.

If I load the direct image (http://img.slowgeek.com/?size=1&n=0&lw=1&unit=km&id=1416669565&mtime=1265678975 ) it looks right.

On my profile page (http://slowgeek.com/pr/ATJ777) there's no way I can make the image the same size as the direct image. No matter what I do with Ctrl+ or Ctrl-, image info still has this listed as the dimensions: 650px × 250px (scaled to 660px × 260px) even though the direct image says it is 660px x 260px. But if I overlay the direct image over the one on the profile page, it is always either higher and wider or shorter and narrower, even if I only zoom by one step.

I tried Ctrl 0 which is meant to reset zoom and it is still blurred - the image is larger than it is supposed to be.

rlerdorf on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-471 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:27:42 +0000 rlerdorf 471@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Right, but your browser remembers that setting on a per-site basis. Try it. Hit Ctrl-+ then close that tab. Open a new tab, browse somewhere else, then come back to Slowgeek, or whatever site you did the Ctrl-+ on and you will see that it is still bigger than normal.

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-470 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:47:01 +0000 ATJ777 470@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Only no other sites had enlarged graphics. It was quite weird that only slowgeek was affected.

4U2C on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-469 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:10:24 +0000 4U2C 469@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

ATJ777, probably at some point you did a ctrl "+" and have been using enlarged graphics on all the web pages you browse.

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-463 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:25:18 +0000 ATJ777 463@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

I was not using any specific browser zoom feature. Using the direct link to the graph I was able to use Ctrl+minus to shrink everything until the image on my profile page was the same size. Now it looks OK. I wonder how it got out.

It looks fine now.

rlerdorf on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-461 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:07:16 +0000 rlerdorf 461@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Did you use some sort of browser zoom feature there? That screen shot shows an image that is larger than the image I am generating. The direct link to that graph is:

http://img.slowgeek.com/?size=1&n=0&lw=1&unit=km&id=1416669565&mtime=1265678975

There is a bit of anti-aliasing going on to make the text appear smooth, and yes, if you zoom in on the anti-aliasing then that starts to fall apart. Anti-aliasing is a bit of a visual trick that isn't meant to be magnified.

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-460 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:32:45 +0000 ATJ777 460@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

OK, the overlapping has now gone. The text still looks blurred, though.

I have attached a screen shot. The text above the graph is nice and clear but the text in the graph looks like it has leaked or something.

Damn, I can't upload the file. Here's a link: http://andrewtrevor-jones.com/slowgeekgraph.png

rlerdorf on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-459 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:56:50 +0000 rlerdorf 459@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Yeah, it is probably a hate-it or love-it sort of thing. I was trying to get a bit more colour and life into the graphs and the weather graphics seemed like the easiest way to do that. I even find myself looking for weird conditions to run in just to get a graph with the weather graphic to match. The "Windy" graphic is really nice.

MaddyPilar on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-458 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:22:28 +0000 MaddyPilar 458@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

This might bot be the place to say this. But I love the giant weather icons. Maybe only because it was 19 degrees when I ran yesterday and the giant FRIGID felt so perfect, but still, I love it.

rlerdorf on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-457 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:16 +0000 rlerdorf 457@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

Blurred? You mean just the part that overlaps, right? That should be fixed now.

ATJ777 on "Large weather icons and blurred text" http://forums.slowgeek.com/topic/large-weather-icons-and-blurred-text#post-456 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:00:05 +0000 ATJ777 456@http://forums.slowgeek.com/

G'day. In the last week or so the weather icons on runs (Sunny, Cloudy, etc.) are way bigger than they used to be. They are huge! Additionally, when looking at the summary page the text on and around the graphs appears blurred - it hurts my eyes to read it for any length of time. The text "cal" overlaps with my location.

I thought this happened when I went to Firefox 3.6, but I just checked with IE 6.0 and on Firefox 3.5.7.