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Re: Thumbnails...
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:26:49 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:

Making separate thumbnail images is The Right Way.

Agreed.

Further, in your example, you're going from 640x480 to 320x240 (2:1)in your
reduced image. Consider getting more aggressive in your size reduction, the
point of a thumbnail is to have lots and lots of them on a page and then follow
them to what you want to see. Try 128x96 (5:1) for your thumbnail, and also try
using a lossy-er compression factor, if you're using a jpeg. That will really
speed up load time

Thumbsplus is well regarded, or was last time I investigated this, and can do a
bunch of pics for you with you controlling the scaledown AND the lossyness.

NB: I don't use thumbnails, but that's because I'm lazy. They're actually a
good thing. So do as I say, not as I do.

++Lar



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(...) Right. The width tag isn't really meant for scaling. It exists so that the page layout engine can know how big a graphic is going to be before loading it. Making separate thumbnail images is The Right Way. (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.publish)

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