Posted by Gerry Vandermaesen on 11/19/44 11:45

Why not, muck like Flickr, display a low-res friendly version by
default, and providing a link to see all available resolutions?

Or, let the user specify his preference, and store it in a user profile
if your sites lets users authenticate, or in a cookie if not, and fetch
the right version.

Sandy Pittendrigh wrote:
> I have a fishing related site with a billion photos,
> where 600 pixels as a maximum photo width looks OK
> at both low resolution and high resolution,
> but spectacular in neither. Browser stats sites
> say 37% of all users still use 800x600 resolution.
> So if you have a site you have to deal with that issue
> somehow.
> But compromises piss me off.
>
> The pages you make (as php developer) could
> use client-side javascript to detect the local
> screen resolution. Then, theoretically, you could
> send an Ajax message back to the server, to set
> a session variable, so all subsequent requests
> could be either dynamically generated, with differing
> image sizes, or you could, maybe, use url-rewriting
> to redirect to the right static html (with differing
> image sizes).
>
> But that's got a hidden catch22. Because the 37% of
> all users who still use 800x600 resolution probably won't
> have browsers that can deal with Ajax requests.
>
> Has anybody ever figured out how to optimize image
> sizes for different screen resolutions?

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