Christensen, Courtney 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?
Thanks, -Courtney
If I recall correctly, two reasons:
* resizing the image at the server side makes for a much smaller image file, reducing bandwidth costs and server load, and decreasing page load times proportionately (consider, for example, a 1000x1000 image reduced to a 200 x 200 thumbnail, which will load 25x faster than the original at the same compression ratio)
* most browsers do a very poor job of resizing images, generally using simple pixel selection, and ImageMagick can do a much better job
-- Neil