I've seen a serious issues with the way images are displayed in the official bimmerpost app for iphone.
It's been like this for a long time, so I wanted to take a moment and point out how it negatively effects users. Images display just fine on a desktop and also when viewing the forum via a browser on mobile, but the app itself is doing very odd resizing of almost all images.
I believe this issue is caused by the logic setup to crop images that are wider than they are tall, resulting in the app maintaining a standard height for images, and zooming in until a consistent width is reached. Images that are wider than they are tall are not benefitting from this logic at all. This results in cut off images, which often include sponsored vendor names, or data put into images by users. If the images that are wider than they are tall scaled to be the same width, while the height was free to be variable, then they would display much better in all circumstances. It should be an easy fix and it would improve every single thread with images embedded in them (which is a lot of threads). Images that are taller than they are wide are already displaying properly.
I'll use our own commercial threads as an example but if you look at almost any commercial thread via the app you'll notice serious cropping issues on photos that contain important information
Our thread:
http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho....php?t=1213142
When viewing the forum from the bimmerpost app all the images are super zoomed in which results in serious cropping of the sides.
Viewed via Bimmerpost app on an iphone - looks BAD
Vertical images are already supported well:
When viewing the forum from a mobile browser all the images display in reasonable proportion.
Viewed via Safari on an iphone - looks OK
IND thread viewed via Bimmerpost app on an iphone - looks BAD
This is not just an issue in our threads with our out-of the-norm image sizes. Almost every regular image posted by others gets cropped too. See this thread posted by IND. Their logo banner is unnecessarily zoomed in like ours because it's wider than it is tall.
Thread link:
http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho....php?t=1054438
Traditional ratio image viewed via Bimmerpost app on an iphone
When you click on them to see the full size, the site resizes it by just scaling the image appropriately (showing the full width and just changing the height. The 10-20% crop that takes place on a lot of images is unnecessary. If the image were just scaled to fit the width of the page the stack height of threads with multiple images would actually be a bit shorter which is ideal. The entire image could be seen right away. click on it would only be needed when wanting to view in higher res.
Image when viewed in a thread with unnecessary cropping
Image when clicked on to zoom in
Conclusion
You would significantly improve user experience by fixing how the app handles images that are wider than they are tall, all images would display better on the mobile app. Much of the compromise in using the mobile app would be reduced.
Thanks for hosting and managing such a great site/app.
-Eddy Pintacsi[/QUOTE]