Peter Hansen wrote: > rbt wrote: >> What's a good way to resize pictures so that they work well on html >> pages? I have large jpg files. I want the original images to remain as >> they are, just resize the displayed image in the browser. > > These two things are mutually exclusive by most people's definition of > "work well". You can't push the resizing down to the browser *and* > "work well" when working well includes avoiding downloading massive JPGs > when only small images are to be shown. > > Can you clarify what you really want?
Sure, sorry. I use Python to generate html pages. I link to several large images at times. I'd like to display a thumbnail image that when clicked will go to the original, large jpg for a more detailed view. "resize ... image in the browser" > implies merely using "width" and "height" attributes... How does one do that and keep the original ratio intact? > size of the image *after* the whole thing has been downloaded, in which > case this would be solved with mere attributes on the IMG element. > > -Peter > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
