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Posted by Spartanicus on 10/21/06 08:17
Don <me@sendspamhere.com> wrote:
[big snip]
Please snip quotes down to a minimum.
>> > then image resizing does NOT work! How can I get resizing to work in
>> > this page? I do NOT want to specify any particular size,
>>
>> ...bad idea...
>
>And the drawbacks are...?
Browsers typically do a poor job at resizing, your images are likely to
look poor when you code so that they do that.
>Why do you say this? Here's my motivation:
>I made a 'home' page with links to pages containing the images. Each of
>the image pages contain 'next', 'previous' buttons so it can function as
>a slide show, which is why I can't make the home page link directly to
>the pictures.
You can create both an index page with thumbnails and a Previous & Next
links beneath the target pages. If that sounds like a lot of work, there
are plenty of programs out there that can generate such automatically.
>I want to put all this on a CD to give to friends, but I
>want to include the FULL resolution images in case they want to make
>large prints, which is why I don't want to set any particular image
>size.
Apart from the quality argument, full resolution images such as
typically made by a digital camera can use a very large amount of memory
and can be very slow to resize. It would be much better to resize them
to a reasonable size for your target audience, let's say for desktop
usage 800px wide, then use a print stylesheet to serve the full
resolution images. 800px wide images should suit most desktop viewports
fine, it will also look nice (I'd center the images). Users using a
viewport width smaller than 800px will get a scrollbar, this is not
great, but perfectly functional.
The only reasonable way to also cater for let's say small screen mobile
devices is to create another set of images aimed at that screen width.
Again this need not be a lot of work due to the available software.
You could then let people choose between the various sizes, or select a
version with Javascript based on their viewport width.
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Spartanicus
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