Posted by Andy Jeffries on 06/24/05 17:10

Zbigniew Lisiecki wrote:
> <img src="part1.jpg" width="150">
>
> to load a chosen part in original size one has to click on it.
> Yet loading of a whole table is still very slow. Does the width
> transformation occur on a client side !!! ?

Yes. The client only asks for "part1.jpg" from the server then displays
it at 150px wide.

> Still if it's made by apache on server side how time-effective it
> is ?

It's not.

> Surely it's better to prepare part[1-n].jpg as part[1-n].smaller.jpg
> in smaller sizes

Correct.

> but i have a lot pictures, so I am looking for an
> effective automatism. Could somebody help me, please.
>
> ps: how could one shrink *jpg images in batch

Use Macromedia Fireworks or Photoshop in batch mode. Or if you're a
Linux/OSS guy use ImageMagick and a quick bash script.

Cheers,


Andy

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