Image Resizer

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I thought I’d mentioned this before, but I couldn’t find anything when I searched.

Anyway, over at MacNN, they use Javascript to provide dynamic image resizing, and it’s brilliant. You can see an example here.

I know in the past you were wary of dynamic image resizing because of the server overhead, but since this is done entirely in Javascript, it wouldn’t hit the server at all. Also, MacNN uses vB 3.6, so I don’t think the Javascript should affect any of the AJAX functions here.

PS: If you do end up using this, please set the cursor to the Mickey Mouse hand for a:hover, because it “feels” kind of awkward to click it with the text selection cursor.
 
Yeah, this is a great feature. We have at over at CW, this would work well here since most of the time people post huge pics.
 
Does it always resize the pics to fit in your monitor?

If it does, that would kind of suck, I know people in the photoforums frequently use images that fit with the background of the forums to make a sort of cool, clickable image that leads to different pics when clicked in different places.

Things like that wouldn't work if this was automatic.
 
Yeah, I don't know, perhaps I've always been fortunate enough to use a high resolution monitor, but I've never really been bothered by this issue. When I do come across images that have been "scaled down", deep inside, I feel as if I'm missing out on something and I invariably feel compelled to click anyway. But maybe that's just me... :)
 
Actually, I think of photo resizers almost as an annoyance. It's not like there's a lot of people posting huge images like they're smilies... but it could be because I don't go everywhere on this forum.

I'm not completely opposed to such a thing, though. But then again, if it was enabled, I wouldn't mind if you give people like me an option to turn it off. :P
 
Another forum I browse use this and personally I think it's annoying. Specially here at work where I use a 800x600 resolution. Practically all images posted are resized to fit the screen and that lags the computer a lot, I think it's because it has only 256MB of ram.

At home it doesn't bother me though.
 
Jordan
hen I do come across images that have been "scaled down", deep inside, I feel as if I'm missing out on something and I invariably feel compelled to click anyway. But maybe that's just me... :)
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Nope, I do it too. It's never worth the click, is it? :dopey:

I love the idea, personally. It makes it surprisingly quicker to get stuff like full quality photos posted on sites without worrying about screwing up anyone's monitors. I installed it as a re-assurance thing (I.E. if I accidentally stuck a huge image up it'd be alright), but I've now found myself relying on it a bit :lol:

Like I said, I like the idea, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if it didn't appear.
 
I find image resizers more annoying that just posting big images. Most of the image resizers let the image load at its original full size, then shrink them using javascript or something. This often takes longer than just posting the large image and letting it stay as is.
 

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