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[potofsoup]

2 things that I wish AO3 could implement to make it more Art friendly:

1) Allow workskins to have the media attribute, which would allow artists to control the size that their art is displayed at given a range of browser sizes.
(Or, pending that, just a universal thing that sets images in fics to 100% width when the browser is in phone size)

2) Allow a single image tag in the fic summary space, so that the artist can put a small teaser banner. Set a max height so that it doesn't bloat search results. Have the info about this be on a how-to page that specifies that it should be sfw.

They both seem like ... pretty doable things? How do I help AO3 do it?

(Well, #2 actually seems more involved on the policy side)

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[treefrogie84]

no idea how to do it with skins, but you can just toss "width=100%" in your html for the image and that'll do it.
so like, img src="blahblahblah" width=100% in carrots. (I generally do 75 or 80%, but ymmv)

[potofsoup]

Yes, I know. But my comics look horrible at width=100% on the desktop, but need to be width=100% for mobile in order to have it be at all legible. The ideal for me is if at screensize > 600px, width=600px. At screensize<600px, width=100%. That's possible with the CSS media property, but that has to be in the header style and not an in-line style. But the AO3 workskins don't allow the media property because they were designed before the media property existed.

[treefrogie84]

ohhh, gotcha. sorry. :(

[potofsoup]

thanks for trying to help, though! I'm just oddly finicky about these things.

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[minoanmiss]

OMG I have needed this knowledge.

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[treefrogie84]

at least i helped someone!