|  | Posted by Gerry Vandermaesen on 06/10/44 11:45 
Why not, muck like Flickr, display a low-res friendly version bydefault, and providing a link to see all available resolutions?
 
 Or, let the user specify his preference, and store it in a user profile
 if your sites lets users authenticate, or in a cookie if not, and fetch
 the right version.
 
 Sandy Pittendrigh wrote:
 > I have a fishing related site with a billion photos,
 > where 600 pixels as a maximum photo width looks OK
 > at both low resolution and high resolution,
 > but spectacular in neither. Browser stats sites
 > say 37% of all users still use 800x600 resolution.
 > So if you have a site you have to deal with that issue
 > somehow.
 > But compromises piss me off.
 >
 > The pages you make (as php developer) could
 > use client-side javascript to detect the local
 > screen resolution. Then, theoretically, you could
 > send an Ajax message back to the server, to set
 > a session variable, so all subsequent requests
 > could be either dynamically generated, with differing
 > image sizes, or you could, maybe, use url-rewriting
 > to redirect to the right static html (with differing
 > image sizes).
 >
 > But that's got a hidden catch22. Because the 37% of
 > all users who still use 800x600 resolution probably won't
 > have browsers that can deal with Ajax requests.
 >
 > Has anybody ever figured out how to optimize image
 > sizes for different screen resolutions?
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