Album Summary improvements

samkuhn2

Joined: 2004-04-13
Posts: 60
Posted: Tue, 2004-08-10 15:34

I have a suggestion or two regarding the Album Summary.

It would be nice to include a narrative with an album via the Album Summary box. Unfortuantely, any narrative of length will quickly crowd out the photos on the page. Also, the lack of autoformating makes it a challenge to novice users to get a good looking summary (e.g. line wrap occurs at full page width)

Would it be possible to have Gallery autotruncate the Summary at the top of the Album with a link that says "read more" and will initiate a popup with the full Summary in it? Perhaps it could be an option for the "read more" link to either generate a popup or to reload the page with the full summary in view.
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It would also be nice if Gallery would provide some autoformating. Albums look good when displayed at full page width, but text does not. I know that html tags are allowed in the summary, but it would be nice if Gallery did some small amount of formating itself (perhaps a check box option or config option?) to line wrap at maybe 80 or 100 chars? This would be especially important with pop up window.

Many thanks.