Controlling size of the image that href= opens?

[rf]

Right! <g>

Els http://locusmeus.com/

Er, went to have look at your latest. AH down again?

 

[Lauri Raittila]

Ok, I guess that just about wraps it. I've been to the mountain...and dynamic
re-sizeing is not going to happen in this case....So I'll just resize to a
least-common denominator.

Good idea

Is 800x600 going too far?

With your image quality, that is about right. Anything bigger would be
stupid, as your images have no quality. If there is some image with
better quality somewhere, add link to bigger resolution under the image.

If, say, 10% of the the users have that I wouldn't
have any problem with sticking them with something sized for 1280x1024...
just to give the others a break.

Remember, that if someone has screen resolution of 800*600, he just hate
you if you don't offer small enaugh image. If someone is using 1280*1024
screen, he will hate you for using too big site for his window, which is
propably something like 800px wide. He will like links for bigger
resolutin though, if that bigger resolution image is good quality. If it
is like those in your example, he will hate you as he opened it in new,
bigger window for nothing.

 

[Lauri Raittila]

(Pete Cresswell) wrote;

Size is - but I was trying to find out if there was a method to automagically
fit each to the user's window so that different users with different screen
sized could each see the biggest version possible.

Make software that does that and forget HTML. Making it work on all
platforms from CD is impossible though...

 

[Els]

Er, went to have look at your latest. AH down again?

Looks like it, yes. Their own site too.
As long as my pc's on, you can check out my site here:
http://here.locusmeus.com/
Haven't gotten my scripts to work with my installation of Perl
yet, so the forms won't work.

 

[Jeffrey Silverman]

its not so common now we have fun 'n giggly CSS but an example would be
sending a 10x10px solid color gif and using the with/height attributes
to change it to a 200x20px image on the page to make a border.

i.e send a 10x10px image but on the page use:

<img src="my-border.gif" width="10" height="200" alt="">

its less bytes so faster and theres no degradation with solid colors.

another one is balancing the quality with download speed and upsizing
thumbs. send a 35x35px image but on the page specify 50x50px.

Allright, I guess. A pair of contrived examples, both of which can be
done in ways in which you don't have to resize the image. Also, not really
relevant to the OP (well, the latter one is, I guess).

I still think you should never resize an image in the browser. And I mean
never.

 

[Anthony Buckland]

RE/



Download time isn't an issue BC they're going out on a CD.

Size is - but I was trying to find out if there was a method to automagically
fit each to the user's window so that different users with different screen
sized could each see the biggest version possible.

I look at photos with ZoomBrowser (came with my camera) and its slide show
option. It does a best fit to my screen with no problem. Do all your
adressees have some kind of software like that?

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

RE/

I look at photos with ZoomBrowser (came with my camera) and its slide show
option. It does a best fit to my screen with no problem. Do all your
adressees have some kind of software like that?

I don't know. There are about 150 of them. Don't want to go there because of
the complexity factor - don't want to impose anything on the user.

 

[Jeffrey Silverman]

The brass ring would be for each large pic to automagically resize itself as the
user changed the size of the browser's window....but I'd be really happy if I
could just have the pix fit when first opened.

MSIE will do this for you. I forget the exact option to set (there is
some zoom option or something), but if you open an image file (NOT a file
embedded within HTML using <img src=""> -- *just* the image file), the
latest version of MSIE will fit the image to the browser window. This is
an IE-specific feature, though.

Oh, I found it:
Tools->Internet Options->Advanced (tab)->"Enable automatic image resizing"
checkbox