Image resize plugin for Safari

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Image resize plugin for Safari

I was wondering if anyone knew of a plugin for Safari that would resize images so that they fit in the browser window?? I have done some searching on Google but cannot find anything. I am wondering if perhaps it hasnt been developed yet? I think that it would be a great idea as I know many people who would use it.

Anyway, hoping someone can help me out here. Love Apple and all their products!

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Posted on Sep 6, 2005 1:08 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 7, 2005 8:45 PM in response to Jesse Almanrode

Jesse, what is the purpose for the resized image: for example, is this
for images you want to display on your web site, or is it for images when you are cruising the web?

If you want to enlarge images on your web site, but keep them to scale, you can set either the width or the height attribute (not both!) to a percentage; which, actually, represents the percentage width or height of the document body.

You can either set this in your style sheet, or in the image tag (the traditional way). Let's say in the style sheet, you set your body width to 50% of the available space and centered it; and you set the image to 80% width; the image would actually be about 40% of the available width (.80 x 50%).

The problem with setting this across the board for every image that you come across is that if the image is small in the first place, like a button, it will likely be blown out (pixelated), if made to be 80% width, for example. So you would probably still want to individually control each image.

Is that what you had in mind, or something else?

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Answer 2

Sep 8, 2005 10:33 AM in response to Fran Corpier

Not completely. My reasoning behind wanting this plugin is for when you are say... Browsing the net and come across a wallpaper that you would like to download. You click on the link for a certain resolution and it opens a new browser window with the full size image in it. What Firefox and other browsers do is take that image and scale it down to completely fit in the browser window so that you can see the entire image (This happens when the resolution of the image will not fit completely in your browser window). It doesnt do anything to the actual size of the image it just changes at what scaled percentage you see it in the browser window.

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