Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24409505-20150316142626/@comment-24409505-20150317140725

DEmersonJMFM wrote: I prefer landscape because much of the scene is shown (including groups of characters). As I've mentioned before, that is not the case for images with a portrait orientation shown in a landscape ratio. Not only is not much of the scene shown, as only a tiny little part of the image is cut for us to see, but it may even look confusing and ugly. Example below:



DEmersonJMFM wrote: Not to mention many films are in a widescreen format. Not to be rude, but not all wiki's are about films. And the feature is available for ALL pages, and I doubt that the majority of the pages include images in widescreen format (unless you can show me statistics that 90% of the images uploaded to any wiki at wikia have a landscape orientation). For example, many book covers, film posters and individual character images are mostly in portrait ratio.

Square ratio does not look good for many images in a landscape orientation as noted by the new gallery layout. I have not tried the new gallery feature, so I can't say anything about that. But square ratio seem to me the only format to make both portrait-orientated and landscape-orientated images look normal. You can't choose to support one and ignore the other.