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Posted by David Dorward on 08/16/06 19:12
Michael Laplante wrote:
> Here's the challenge. For personal purposes -- my harddrive and DVDs only,
> not online -- I want to design html photo albums. I have two concerns:
>
> i. the future evolution of html / css may render some current tags,
> attributes or techniques obsolete.
Changes to HTML and CSS are unlikely to make any significant differences to
authoring practises in the short to mid-term. Certainly things are not
going to start breaking.
> ii. if I re-size my images for today's current monitors they may be too
> small for comfortable viewing for future monitors which I expect will get
> only bigger.
Keep your original files as well as scaled down ones for display in
webpages / on TV screens.
> To get around ii. my solution is to create smaller versions of the
> originals and reference these in my page, but omitting the height and
> width attributes. If the need to change the size arises in the future, I
> figure I can just resize the images. That way, there'll be no need to go
> through all my pages and (painfully) replace the dimensions in the <img>
> tag.
Learn a programming language. Looking at the physical dimensions of an image
and outputting height and width attributes based on that is really pretty
trivial.
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