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Include thumbnail width and height on Post
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Is your proposal related to a problem?
While creating an UI for Lemmy, it would be really helpful to know the height and width of thumbnail before downloading them. This will allow to preallocate the correct space in the layout, without missing frames or jittering.
I thing this information could be easily included in the API, as I assume the thumbnail size is known by the server.
Describe the solution you'd like.
Include thumbnail size on the Post entity.
Describe alternatives you've considered.
Downloading the image without knowing the size in advance. However that causes the UI elements to change in size after the download, and that's very juggering.
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or just a ratio of height and width in image URL or as separate field as width and height in the api will be great.
@subashz An aspect ratio field is redundant, because it can be calculated from width and height. The server giving us the dimensions should be enough.
It would be possible to do this for the thumbnail_url, but not the post.url, which is not necessarily an image.
Yeah. It would be great.
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It would be possible to do this for the thumbnail_url, but not the post.url, which is not necessarily an image.
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It would be possible to do this for the
thumbnail_url, but not the post.url, which is not necessarily an image.
can it be done?? or required help from outside?
Ya we could def use some help, as we're busy with other things like the release. Pictrs has a details endpoint that you could use for that info.
Also, if you're an app dev, these are already pictrs images, meaning you can do any cropping / transforms you like on them, so you can choose your own height and width.