Skill Levels

[writerkit]

Me: "I'm not actually terribly good with computers, you realize."

Also Me: "I want to know the size of this image, clearly the logical way to do this is to select 'inspect' from the right-click menu and look for how many pixels it is in the webpage's HTML, a solution that is very obvious and would clearly occur to anyone."

(Although there has to be a more direct way to do that, so I'm not sure 'skill' is quite what this says.)

Comments

[squirrelitude]

I would generally right-click, Open Image in New Tab, check window title of new tab. But that tells you the image's *inherent* size, not how big it is *in the page* (where it might have been rescaled or even stretched). So I guess it depends what you want!

My version of this is being an expert on the command line but finding smartphones terrifying and opaque and unusable.

[jducoeur]

Ayep. Same basic principle as the way that Jane, the professional reference librarian, was effectively the IT department for the engineering company she worked at.

You have a generally logical and organized view of the world, and that's a pretty large fraction of the task of working with computers day-to-day. (And less common than folks would like to believe.)