Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
Sooo, how long have you been getting the errors? It's only been a few days for me.
Here's something else odd that happens sometimes:
clarity-expired-token-error.jpg
oh I have met that token patrol guard before here
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?13327-Security-Tokens
I have never been able to post pictures here ever
Don't worry Lisa I think you will be able to post pictures eventually..most people are better with computers than I am.
Ah - there is the kitten. Now I'll go away for a while, and see if it mysteriously becomes a link later on.
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you must uncheck that little box in the lower left of "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." You can't post pictures from your computer, they must be hosted from the net so that it doesn't use Clarity's bandwidth.
I'm beginning to feel like I've let all the goblins out of Pandora's box, though - sorry, Hilary...
Also, when I right click on one of the image links in my posts and use the "Copy Link Location" option, the URL (this is for kitten.jpg in post #17) is this:
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/attachment.php?attachmentid=1169&d=1408053940
So the image is stored here, uploaded from my computer. It's not still on my computer. (My head hurts uch:.)
it seems there would be two issues: bandwidth, and server space. If we upload pictures to Clarity from our computers, they're stored on Clarity's servers and take up space. But if we link to them from some other website like Flickr, it seems that's what would chew up bandwidth, because in order to display the pictures, Clarity's servers have to talk back and forth to Flickr's servers. I'm not sure if that makes sense, or which would be the bigger problem, or which would cause the least pain to Clarity.
Now back here, click on the "Insert Image" icon; two choices are given: to upload from your computer (which this site doesn't support because of the bandwidth issue
Oh, okay, I didn't know that.Bandwidth and server space amount to the same thing, correct.
Am still confused, though...isn't an image the size that it is? How would it change size depending on its storage location? If a .jpg file is 4K, wouldn't it stay 4K, unless a person intentionally resized it in image-editing software?If on the other hand, it's "pinched" from an already hosted site, it takes up only the bandwidth equivalent of words, which is much, much less space.
<link href="data:image/x-icon;base64,AAABAAEAEBAAAAEAGABoAwAAFgAAACgAAAAQAAAAIAAAAAEAGAAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAABgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD7+/v////////////////////4+Pj////9/f3////////9/f38/Pz8/Pz////7+/v////19fX////09PT////+/v719fX////////8/Pz09PT////9/f3///////////8REREHBwfz8/Pu7u77+/v29vb5+fkAAAAGBgYHBwcdHR0DAwPy8vLy8vL///////8AAAAlJSX6+vr29vb5+fn///8AAAAODg4GBgYAAAAAAAAgICAAAAD////9/f319fU3NzcAAAD7+/v7+/v9/f0AAAAAAAD39/f////9/f3///8AAAACAgL///////////8EBAQEBAT9/f36+vr///8KCgoUFBT19fXv7+/v7+/39/cZGRkLCwsAAAD////5+fkAAAAWFhb5+fn///8AAAAAAAD4+Pj////w8PD////w8PDr6+sMDAz09PT////+/v4NDQ0LCwvz8/P7+/sPDw8fHx/t7e37+/v+/v78/Pzw8PD9/f3////7+/v////5+fkSEhIQEBDs7Oz///8MDAwAAAD////u7u76+vr////////09PT5+fn+/v7///////8AAAAAAAD////z8/MAAAAYGBj6+vr////////w8PD////5+fn////+/v7u7u7///8UFBQCAgL////8/PwVFRUAAAD////t7e3IyMj////39/f39/f29vb////u7u7///8TExMdHR3k5OT5+fkEBAQAAAD////////////z8/Px8fH19fX////y8vL////+/v4AAAAhISH////39/f///8ICAgAAAD////n5+f19fX6+vr///8AAAD////////7+/sdHR0AAAD////39/ft7e0KCgoAAAALCwv+/v7////7+/sAAAASEhIAAAD////6+voTExMNDQ3////6+vr////19fUHBwcDAwMFBQUAAAALCwsCAgIAAADy8vL///////8AAAAMDAz39/f////39/f////09PQBAQEAAAAODg4BAQEHBwf////7+/v4+Pj///8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />
Am still confused, though...isn't an image the size that it is? How would it change size depending on its storage location? If a .jpg file is 4K, wouldn't it stay 4K, unless a person intentionally resized it in image-editing software?
I understand (I think) that everything is ultimately stored as "words" electronically (I don't know the right terms to use) - but for example, here's the gibberish that represents a teeny icon in HTML:
I guess I always thought that if an image is 4K, its "text representation" would be 4K worth of "words." (My headache is back uch: )
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I followed the "From URL" procedure you explained (thank you) with this picture of a pretty owl randomly selected from Flickr. I did see the checkbox, and I unchecked it .
Edited: The owl is surviving the page being reloaded, hooray! Also, I can see that the photo is not clickable (which is different from the blogs I mentioned), but when I right click and Copy Image Location, I get this: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3924/14731207180_be2264d07d_q.jpg
That makes sense...my camera can take pictures at various resolutions, all of which could probably be made to have the same physical dimensions (width and length). If pictures at different resolutions were all made to have the same physical dimensions (1024x768 pixels, for example), the lower resolution photos would be grainier and not display as nicely. Each of those photos would have a different size from the others in kilobytes or megabytes, and take up different amounts of storage space, despite having the same width and length in pixels. I understand that so far, I think.The bandwidth file size of an image is not only determined by it physical width and length, but also by is resolution, whether it's high quality or rough quality, which would appear as more grainy looking. Either case is greatly larger than text would be.
When we view an image hosted from another site, we're actually viewing that other site's image, only linking to it here. So it takes up no space to speak of. If we upload it from our computer, that gobbles up a lot of the site's bandwidth, i.e. an average picture might be actually 40k or so.
If you want to make a link from the image, you then click on that little earth with a chain link at the bottom icon, then type in what you wish it to link to and click OK. Make sure to delete the http in the window first, it'll already be included in your link.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).