On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:18:30 -0800
"Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:49:33PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:13:48 -0500
> > dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> >
> > > greets, folks!
> > >
> > > i'm engaged in a little project here, and it's moving along nicely
> > > except that i hope to do a thing or two that i do not know how to
> > > do.
> > >
> > > the project is this: last september i took pictures of the wedding
> > > of some friends, all digital, all 1600x1200 so that they print
> > > nicely. i hope to put together a cd of them for them -- in fact,
> > > several, so they can send them to their friends. i have a nice
> > > little script that generates cute little thumbnails and so on, all
> > > in html, so anyone will be able to use the cd to view the pictures.
> > >
> > > the problem is that most people do not have 1600x1200 monitors, so
> > > viewing will be a pain unless i can *also* provide, for computer
> > > viewing, say 640x480 images.
> > >
> > > there are a couple hundred pictures. opening them one after another
> > > in the gimp and downsizing them is something that unappeals to me so
> > > much you cannot believe it.
> >
> > Well, I know if you're using html to get the images, you can size them
> > within the html code, so you can have three html pages, one that
> > renders thumbnails, one that shows them at 640x480, and one that shows
> > them full size.
> >
> > Would that do it for you?
>
> I would hope not. When you do that, the whole image has to be
> downloaded, and resized at the browser. That can be impossibly slow for
> a large collection.
Umm, this is all on a CD. So it would be local to the machine, no
downloading necessary. That, or I can't read and understand what dep
said.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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