Re: Screen too large

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 12:57:26 -0600
>From: P3D RJ Thorpe writes:
>
>To all 3Ders who post parallel images on their pages:
>
>If you code the entries for the images on your pages like the example
>below, your visitors need not have the problems described in this 
>thread over the last few days.
>
>     <img src="3Dshot.gif" width=100%>
>
>NOTE: the width=100%
>What this does is expands or contracts an image to fit the width of
>the browser window. All the visitor has to do is resize the width of 
>their browser window to whatever is comfortable for them to look at.
>
>There are still a few questions about resolution and loss of detail
>etc but these are small compared to ease of viewing.
>

I can't recommend this procedure, though it may work in some cases. 

For one thing it would ruin any layout scheme you may be trying to
accomplish. For another it asks the viewer to make changes of the browser
window which is something most viewers won't do very often. Using the built
in scaling routines can also ruin detail in the images. It also means that
on a large monitor such as that which was first mentioned in this thread,
you would HAVE to reduce the browser window whether you wanted to or not, in
order to get the image down to a viewable size. Setting it at 100% makes it
take up the full browser window even if it's not intended to do so in an
overall page layout sense.

You would be better off using a larger image format and specifying a smaller
display size which scales the image smaller on the screen having nothing to
do with browser windows. This would get it down to a viewable size, but
leave the actual file at it's original resolution. I'm not often happy with
this kind of scaling, in terms of image quality. There's no substitute for
planning and use of optimum scales of image for each viewing situation.

I would rather d/l the images and scale them in a graphics viewer for
greater flexibility than adjust the browser window while I'm viewing web
information.

If you want it that way on your pages, fine, but I'm not resizing my browser
window very often, and usually not for purposes of seeing web contents.

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
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