On 9/4/07, Christensen, Courtney ChristensenC@battelle.org wrote:
Hi,
I know how to check the archives, but I'm not sure if this would even be there. What I am really curious about is why it was decided to go with using ImageMagick to resize images, rather than just changing the width attribute of the image?
Without knowing when or where this was decided, I am fairly certain that it is because of size. Setting the html size attribute would still require you to download the full X megabytes of the picture, while a thumb only takes several kilobytes.
Bryan
Thanks, -Courtney
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