On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:20 AM, aude aude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
In terms of supporting non-standard files - there is no reason why to get an obscure size e.g. 224px you could get for example the 240px image and resize it with css...
- That adds an unnecessary extra step to reuse images.
Not necessarily -- if you simply plop the image into an <img src="..." width="..." height="..."> -- and that's what you should usually be doing anyway -- then receiving an image that's not actually the requested size will resize it.
That should actually be what you already get when you request a thumbnail larger than the size of the original.
- Some browsers do a poor job at rescaling images, although other browsers
have improved in this area.
Still true, though most of em are pretty good these days.
If anything, I think in the download button / dialog in Commons, we should have an option to allow user to choose image of any size to download, in addition to the preset choices. :) The thumbnails can be temporary I suppose, and hope no one uses them to hotlink. (my humble opinion!)
I'd usually be content with manually sizing to my perfect dimensions from the original source, probably, but that is a nice shortcut. :)
-- brion