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Posted by Don on 10/27/06 01:46
mbstevens wrote:
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> Don wrote:
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> >
> > And the drawbacks are...? 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. I want to put all this on a CD to give to friends,
>
> If it will never appear on the net, letting
> the browser resize is not quite so bad, but I
> still would not do it unless you are also
> sure that everyone you distribute the CDs to
> also have a browser that resizes images in a
> way that looks good and that maintains the
> aspect ratio.
>
> > 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.
>
> I would make a set of images reduced to the
> same width and have a printing link to the
> full sized image. Your pages will fail
> validation without a width and height set.
>
> > ALSO, the images will appear full-screen (IE maximized) for
> > whatever display resolution they have.
>
> Not unless they allow their browser windows
> to be maximized. Are you playing around with
> jscript to maximize their windows without
> their permission? That would be a bad idea.
> They might have different ideas about how
> large their browser windows should be.
> Better to make reduced images that are small
> enough to display in even a reasonably small
> browser window.
I am not maximizing it for them, I just meant that they can make it as
large as they want, and they'll be getting as much resolution as they
wish (& can handle).
> --
> mbstevens
> http://www.mbstevens.com/howtothumb
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