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mjau-mjau wrote:First of all, it must be mentioned that there is no ultimate answer to this question, simply because a none-scrolling flash-based gallery simply looks and works better on larger screens. Why? Because all the interface AND as much images and thumbnails needs to be available in the interface without scrolling. What happens if someone asks "How to make gallery suitable on 8" screen?". Right now we are soon to release mobile platform frontend, which will certainly make it look much better on mobile devices, but it requires an entirely different interface of course ... Lets see about your specific questions:

Felix J wrote:For example at the start page of gallery the whole photos is not visible some of the height is cut off from the photos, link http://photo.felixjacobson.com/

This is because basically the "filemod" you are using, was created to just "load anything" and simply display it. It does not inherit the resizing algorithm for the main gallery when viewing images. However, you may want to change this ... Instead of using the filemod, you can set your start folder to a normal "gallery" folder, with a single image. This way, it will display the image, and scale it to fit within margins of screen size. You would also need to add a few folder parameters to remove the UI interface elements that you dont want for the start page.

Felix J wrote:Also while browsing through thumbnails in a directory not all thumbnails appears, just 4 (1 row). Link, http://photo.felixjacobson.com/#/conten ... ack_white/

This is a bit unfortunate, because calculates how many rows of thumbnails it can get in, based on thumbnails space-, frame- and margins around the thumbnails area. Most likely, it might just be missing a few px to not display the second row ... This can be remedied by slightly decreasing the thumbnails -> margin in settings, although there is no blueprint to exactly how much margin you should have, because different browsers with different toolbars all have different height. You could probably tweak it to perfectly fit your 11" testing environment. Furthermore, the less margin you have, the less room there may be available for navigation below the thumbnails, and description above thumbnails (which again are pushed upwards and may crash with menu or other items).

Felix J wrote:If I want more thumbnails rows to appear, but still want to keep the size of the thumbnails as is for bigger screen... --there more rows appear by automatically. Perhaps it would be suitable to make the thumbnails smaller just for netbook in order for more thumbnails to appear, or??

If I go full screen then the photos at startpage is fully visible, but still I think they are a bit too big (for 11 inch screen size). Also by going full screen 2 rows appears, but I would still want all set rows to appear.

I agree with you, but this may be something I think we must consider for a future release of a new html5/jQuery version, because html generally is much more powerful for flexible layouts based on screen sizes. Thanks for the insight!