Posted by mbstevens on 01/14/07 15:02

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:10:11 -0800, Roy A. wrote:

>
> mbstevens skrev:
>
>> > Isn't there a way in HTML to specify 100% scaling? I would
>> > have thought that scaling is such an important issue that
>> > the answer to this would be easy to find. (But I couldn't).
>> >
>> > Be gentle, as I am an HTML newbie. I'm building this web
>> > site with straight HTML using a simple HTML editor
>> > (Evrsoft First Page 2006). I know nothing about dynamic
>> > html, cascading style sheets, java script, and all those
>> > other buzz words I've heard bantered around, although
>> > I'm willing to learn about them if necessary to solve
>> > the scaling problem.
>>
>> You can do it with javascript, as explained in the link in
>> the sig. Opening new windows causes accessibility problems, however, and
>> takes over the visitor's browser in a way they might not appreciate. Let
>> the visitor decide how the new window is to open.
>> --
>> mbstevens
>> http://www.mbstevens.com/howtothumb/index.html#jspopups
>
> If you try the javascript with an 768 x 1280 image, the image will
> still scale down.

Well, that part of the OP's request is something that depends on the
browser and how it's options are set.

An image that size is too large anyway,
as Jonathan has already warned. One way to handle large images is
to provide several links to full sized details taken from the full image.

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