Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/14/07 15:12

pmennen wrote:

> Yes, the images are large (1/2 Mbyte) and I have several, so it
> won't be great with dialup. But in this case it is the only way to
> go. If the images could tolerate subsampling, I wouldn't have been
> asking this question to begin with. I'm demonstrating what something
> will look like on a particular computer, so it has to be exact.

You could try to use PHP to manipulate the images, would even be possible to
the user to set a size they want and PHP scales the image to that size. Of
course this wouldn't be something you do on a server that runs on an old i386
with a high amount of visitors. The quality should be a lot better than
letting the browser scale the image.

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//Aho

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