> Does anybody use this way of image processing instead of storing thumbnail > files on server or it is really not a best practice? Could I have somehow alt > text on my images? Any other pros or cons I haven't mentioned?
ALT text would be controlled by the HTML calling the image, not the script generating your thumbnail, so I don't see why that would be an issue regardless of the image thumbnail method used. As for generating them on demand, if your site doesn't do a lot of traffic then I could see this as being an acceptable method, but if traffic picks up then don't expect this to scale well. My thought is that nearly all programming is an exercise in caching, so creating a process to generate the thumbnail images in advance seems to make the most sense to me. It will allow your pages to load more quickly and scale better. If you change your mind about the size just re-run your thumbnail generator and you'll have new images shortly after. -Justin Scott - blog: http://www.tlson.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311905 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
