I have found a need for this type of ability again and again. Something as simple as determining the size of the image (hieght and width) before displaying it, to determine if resizing needs to be done. Now, if I ALWAYS have access to the CF Server in question, then it isn't a problem to use CFX_Image. However, a number of the sites I manage are hosted on 3rd party servers, which DO NOT allow me to install and use CFX tags, or DLLs.
End result is that I need to either find creative ways around the issue (i.e. specify the width of an image, but not the height, so that it gets dynamically resized when rendered), or I need to cripple my sites in small ways. We all know that workarounds are NOT the best solution, and crippling a site is never a good solution. But unless I have control of the server, what choice do I have? Having a native CFIMAGE tag which could handle this would most definetly alleviate this issue. But I'm sure care must be taken not to bloat the core functionality of CF with too many goodies. My thoughts, not yours.... Shawn Grover -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF's Most Wanted :: > Abilty to resize images on the fly, store in cache, read > dimensions, etc. > (should be a cinch with Macromedia's expertise in graphic > products [yea, right]) There are plenty of CFX tags out there that do this. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it - just that solutions exist already. :) ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
