P3D Re: (Slow loading of...)

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 
>From: Brian Reynolds comments:
>...................
>I can see two solutions to using large images and getting the viewing
>size correct for different viewers.
>
>For the viewer, you could take Larry's advice one step further and
>save the image to local disk after loading it on a page by itself.
>Then the person viewing the image could use a local image manipulation
>tool ..........................

****  This is the hassle factor that I would want to avoid. It's the
solution that I've used over and over when encountering images that aren't
viewable by normal means. It's part of the hassle that persuaded me to learn
crossed viewing. The ideal for a visitor to a web page is to not have to go
to that much trouble, unless they wanted to save the image anyway.

>
>For the webpage author, another option would be to use the WIDTH HTML
>tag (within the IMG tag) to specify the percentage of the browser's
>window width to display the image at.  You would probably use 100%.
>The individual viewer could then resize the browser window to
>automatically scale the image to the proper size (for that viewer).
>

****  I refuse to use that option, because that removes the viewer's control
of how to view the image. It means that I would *have* to resize my browser
to fit the presentation in all such cases, and I DEFINITELY PREFER to leave
my browser at full screen. For me that's 1024 x 768. I would leave the site
or save to disk for viewing later before I would fiddle with the browser
window. For me it might be OK for cross eyed pairs, or 2D images, but not
for parallel views. The other problem is that scaling routines can interfere
with parallax by not reproducing it accurately for both left and right.
Sometimes that makes the image develop corrugated vertical bumps like
ripples potatoe chips. Most digital images look best when placed on the
screen at a 1:1 relationship.

Larry Berlin

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