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Posted on 01/14/2015 5:27:38 AM PST by thackney

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To: RightFighter

I agree. Send an email to John Rob. Maybe he can do something.


41 posted on 01/15/2015 7:10:36 AM PST by upchuck (Entrenched incumbency is the disease. Fresh blood is the cure.)
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To: RightFighter

You can actually put the resize code in yourself.

When using the img src= HTML tag, after the second “ at the end of the images address, put in width=800 before the closing >


42 posted on 01/15/2015 7:31:03 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

Like I said, the FR code should do that automatically. If a width isn’t specified and the image is wider than 800, or the specified width is more than 800, then the FR posting code should automatically insert a maximum. They have quite a bit of error-checking code built in for other things, like checking the URL you are posting to see if it requires excerpting.


43 posted on 01/16/2015 4:15:31 AM PST by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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Screen Sizes

With the proliferation of display devices, screens now come in a wide variety of sizes and aspect ratios. The image below illustrates the range of screens possible. Differing aspect ratios are shown on the diagonal lines with the ratio in circles towards the lower right.

Given the wide variation in screen resolution and size when we step from mobi to fondleslab to display to HDTV it is lunacy to specify screen position in term of pixels. There is no way to know what sized screen you are imaging to so it is best to reference screen sizes and positions in percentages instead. The resulting size is the percentage of the width (or height) of the enclosing container. This is most useful when specifying positions and sizes of tables and images. The HTML for the image above looks like:

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Vector_Video_Standards5.svg" width="95%">

The width="95%" part sets the image width to 95% of the width of the enclosing container. We leave the height unspecified so that the computer will figure out the correct value so as not to distort the image. If you wish to distort the image you may specify a height as well.

Things that are text related, such as the whitespace around a paragraph or header and text sizes are best specified in em. One em was originally the width of an M in the current font. In a multi-lingual world where not all alphabets have an M in them, the meaning has evolved to mean the height of the current font. As the user changes the magnification on a page the size of an em changes with it. This produces a pleasing scaled effect to the eye not possible when spacing objects in pixels.

Other unit values available are in inch, cm centimeter, mm millimeter, ex x-height of a font (x-height is usually about half the font-size), pt point - 1/72 of an inch, pc pica - 12 points and px pixels - a single dot on the screen. If no units are specified pixels are used by default. Best results across the broad spectrum of displays are achieved by exclusively using em and percent to specify size and distance. Try not to do anything else.


44 posted on 01/16/2015 4:21:02 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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