Interviewed by CNN on 18/08/2014 22:21, Ed Mullen told the world: > Scaling an inmage via HTML is horrid practice. The image file still > needs to be downloaded in its full size, wasting bandwidth. > > The proper practice is to use an image program to re-size the original > to an appropriate Web size. > > For instance, an original image of 2592 x 1944 and 1.24 Mb can be > reduced to something like 800 x 500 and 118 Kb. A much more manageable > Web scenario. > > If you use the HTML of: > > <img src="pic.jpg style="width: 800px; height: 500px;" alt="bob"> > > and pic.jpg is actually 2592 x 1944 and 1.24 Mb, that is what the server > sends. Re-scale it using something like IrfanView. It's free. > > Some people are still on slower connections with data caps. I'm not but > that doesn't mean I ignore that fact for people who visit my sites. > > I scale my photos/images accordingly.
It's a matter of tradeoffs. Of course, if you are going to make a thumbnail gallery of high-resolution, high-quality photos, there's no question that creating the thumbnails as separate, tiny files is the better route -- particularly because it's likely that the visitor will only want to see the full-size version of a few of those images. On the more extreme examples, the gains can be huge -- like saving 99% on the downloads. OTOH, if there are few images, the original image is not that much larger than the reduced-size one, an you want to make the full-size one available to the visitor, using HTML resizing can even give the visitor a net gain by not downloading two different versions of the same image. It also allows you to dynamically resize the image to the viewport. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Intellivision. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
