On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:20 AM, aude <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> 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... > > > > > 1) 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. > 4) 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
