For some period of time i was thinking why there is no such option like pop-up image enlargement(zoom in). It seems to be a must have feature for social media but we don't have here on Steemit beta. Surely, it's not critical but a needed one feature. Frankly speaking i was pretty sure that the size of the uploading images is lowered by the needs of optimization but few days ago when i returned to the steemit it turned out that the uploaded pictures are stored in the original resolution and reduced only by the means of "css". It became obvious to me that there is enough space for an external solutions.
Most of the time i prefer to write my own extensions for the browsers but as far as i became a bit lazy lately i decided to follow the easiest path. I've tried several third-party extensions that offers auto zoom on image hover and finally have stopped my attention on "Imagus". However, i didn't like how it looked like with the default settings so i've customized them a bit to suite my view on how it should be. Now it works almost fine for me.
Links:
Customize settings:
Go to settings - click on "advanced".
Display delay = 200
Minimum size-difference to zoom = 10%
Add hovered links to the browser history = unchecked
Appearance:
Pop-up placement = center
Use all available space = unchecked
Minimum distance between the pop-up and the cursor = 0px
Custom css:
Replace the field with the following:
margin: 2% 0% 0%; padding: 0; background: #f8f8ff padding-box; border: 100px solid hsla(0,0%,95%,.1); border->color:transparent; border-radius: 2px;
to change the size of the window play with "border: 100px" and "margin: 2% 0% 0%;". Increase or decrease at your will.
Then go to "Grants" tab and insert the to following:
!:*
~:https://steemit.com/
limits the extension to work only with steemit.com
Click "Save" button
Enjoy and have a good time on steemit! :)
P.s I hope that i will challenge myself to write my own extension.
P.p.s I'm pretty sure that there will be a similar feature in the final version of Steemit.