Posted by gil on 12/02/81 11:37

At approximately 2006/01/16 08:04, Travis Newbury typed these characters:

> gil wrote:
>
>>I would like to have the user click on a thumb in a photo gallery to
>>view a larger image with a single line of text below it, AND a button
>>which would close the window.
>>Is there any way this can be done inline with <a ref...>?
>
>
> Yes, call a different HTML page that displays the image and has the
> button.
>
>
>>Or is there a
>>better option?.
>
>
> Yea, you might not want to use a pop up window for this.
>

I guess that there is no elegant way to code a link on a thumbnail to
display a pop up window with larger image and caption when activated.
Although no one said it couldn't be done, the consensus is that I should
stick to the tried and true no risk method, and create a separate html
page for each larger image, with the caption text.

Seems like a lot of wasted space to have a full screen window display a
4cm x 6cm large image with caption. Of course I could make the image
even larger now, if I didn't have to concern myself with the dial-up
download times of these images. (The images have been optimized to be 5
to 15 kb each).

In my mostly rural area, only about 30% have high-speed connections, and
my site is mainly for them. Download times do MATTER.

Thanks for all of your help.
Gil

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