# Talk:Schwarz lantern

Rich (talk) 05:29, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

In an edit summary on the article, User:EEng asked: "what's all this "CSS image crop" stuff for?". It's because I think the portrait of Schwarz has a lot of unnecessary space devoted to the lower part of his jacket, and is better with a tighter aspect ratio focusing more on his face and upper body:

It's not like I'm disrespecting the artistic integrity of the original, or anything, because without the CSS crop it would still be a different crop of the original. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:23, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

That's fine, just wondering because I hadn't seen the syntax before, and asking you was easier than finding out for myself. One comment, though. There's some fragility to specifying, over here, particular crop "coordinates" for an image stored elsewhere, since such images can get cropped or edited silently in ways that invalidate the cropping being done here. This is similar to a (more serious) problem with the {{Annotated image}} feature: after all the fussing to make little rectangles and add annotations and stuff, even a small, innocent adjustment to the base image over at Commons turns it all into unintelligible nonsense. EEng 17:40, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
The coordinates are all relative to the dimensions within the cropped result, so as long as the original image framing remains unchanged, the crop will still work. A bigger issue is that it is impossible to use CSS image crops whose size is relative to the default image size of the person reading the article, as |upright= will do on uncropped images. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:15, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Changes to the original image framing are exactly my concern. But we've got bigger fish to fry elsewhere. ;) EEng 01:31, 21 June 2022 (UTC)