HP: Please Put Floating Capsule Back .. PLEASE

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   weezyschannelposted 5 years ago

   Okay, I don't know how many of you miss this, but I really enjoyed the floating capsule! I used it in both texts and images. It made articles look professional, clean and looked visually appealing.
   
   I have had to take out quite a few photos; if not, it's aggravating the scroll through an image, then an ad, some more text, another ad or a picture, etc.also, Google really likes photos and have changed the preferred search and pagerank accordingly.
   
   Again, I just think the floating capsules really made the article looks so much better.

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      wildernessposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      It did look much better...on a computer screen.  On a mobile device such as a phone it usually looked horrible.  As most of HP readers are using mobile devices these days the floating feature was disabled.
      
      I very often have a block of text associated with several photos - anywhere from 2 to 10.  My solution was to use thumbnails; in that manner there is only one photo to scroll through, but they are all still available.

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         weezyschannelposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         It looked fine on my phone; however, I use the desktop version quite a bit. I wonder if there is another way besides having full image photos or the ability to use <img> align attribute? I don't know it's just my opinion.

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            wildernessposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            As I understand it, photos aligned right got put in center for phones.  The question was to put it above or below the text, and whatever was chosen was virtually guaranteed to be half wrong.
            
            For myself, the text often referred to the photo "to the right", when in reality it was above or below.  I probably had a thousand photos, and their associated text, to consider and re-align when the change was made, but overall it has been a good thing as we watched mobile devices grow so much in popularity. 
            
            On the plus side I used to spend hours producing a good looking hub as well as informative.  I write mostly "how to" stuff, and photos are an integral part of the instructions given, so it was very important that everything line up.  All that is no longer necessary, although we DID lose some appearance factors with the change.
            
            There was another factor as well; during my career here I had cataract surgery.  Before the surgery I adjusted the font and size on my computer screen so I could read it...but photos don't adjust to match.  The result was that all my hard work was destroyed by trying to accommodate failing eyesight, and worse was that I didn't realize it had happened for some time and continued to produce pretty hubs...but only if the reader was also using over sized fonts.  If they weren't the hubs looked horrible!

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