Posted by hywel.jenkins on 10/11/05 16:39

Alex Chernavsky wrote:
> I'm experimenting with a package called "Thumbs" that creates on-line
> slideshows. The advantage of Thumbs is that images are automatically
> resized on the fly, depending on the size of the visitor's browser window.
> It seems to work on my computer (Win 98, IE 6). I'd like to know whether
> anyone has problems with it. Here's the link:

They're not resized on the fly - just scaled in the HTML. That means
that someon viewing it in a small browser window still has to download
the full 270k image. I don't see that as an advantage. The image is
also poorly rendered because of the way browsers scale graphics.

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Hywel

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