[ciapug] images

[Tony Bibbs]

Good points.  I believe that library enforces keeping the aspect ratio, 
too.

--Tony

David Champion wrote:
> I would resize the image at upload time (using something like what Tony 
> posted). Be careful of aspect ratio - the uploader I've used (in 
> vbscript - sorry) would let you specify the vertical limit, then scale 
> to keep the aspect ratio.
> 
> End users typically don't know / don't care about image sizes and such - 
> they'll upload full resolution images from their shiny new 7mp camera, 
> then complain when they take too long to load.
> 
> -dc
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>> I'm working on a site for dog adoptions. I'd like to track some basic
>> information about the dog along with its photo. An admin will upload a
>> image and type in the basic information. The home page will look in the
>> database and display the dogs bio for the all the homeless dogs.
>>  
>> My concern is regarding the image of the dog. What I want to avoid is
>> having to deal with a bunch of oddly sized images, etc.  I'm considering
>> putting together some criteria for the admin to use when uploading the
>> image. I was considering forcing the image size using the height and
>> width tags in my html. My concern is that it still leaves a lot of room
>> for an admin to do some bad things.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts/experience on this issue?
>>
>> :) Dave
>>
> 
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