An HTML Lesson....
21 Mar 2006 17:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patentdragonIt happened again.
Someone used "height" and "width" in image tags on a shop page to produce "thumbnails".
Stop it!
Watch closely:-
This is the Atomic Betty image from a few days ago...
...added to this entry with a bare-bones HTML "img" tag.
This is the same image...
...with height set at 50 pixels and width set to 25 pixels.
They are both the same image, and are both exactly the same download size - right-click and see for yourself. If I wanted a "thumbnail", i.e. a small representative image you could click on to see the full-size image, I would go into Paint Shop Pro and actually take the original image, and produce a reduced-size copy, which would actually be smaller in size, memory-wise.
It may not make a difference to broadband users, but some of us are still stuck with dial-up - OKAY?
Someone used "height" and "width" in image tags on a shop page to produce "thumbnails".
Stop it!
Watch closely:-
This is the Atomic Betty image from a few days ago...
...added to this entry with a bare-bones HTML "img" tag.
This is the same image...
...with height set at 50 pixels and width set to 25 pixels.
They are both the same image, and are both exactly the same download size - right-click and see for yourself. If I wanted a "thumbnail", i.e. a small representative image you could click on to see the full-size image, I would go into Paint Shop Pro and actually take the original image, and produce a reduced-size copy, which would actually be smaller in size, memory-wise.
It may not make a difference to broadband users, but some of us are still stuck with dial-up - OKAY?
