[caww]

You can size down your photos then they don’t take up so much of FR bandwith. Thanks..

[Jaysin]

Thank you

No joke, I literally just started trying out html posting. my first image ever.

Thanks

[BeauBo]

THese guys are really getting into the Spirit!

[Tunehead54]

Regarding bandwidth vs presentation ...

Jaysin’s jpg at #17 was ~ 77kb. Yours at #26 was ~ 185kb. You can take a 5MB picture and with height and width restrictions size it to a postage stamp format but it will still soak up 5mb of bandwidth.

If you have a large picture, found online, you have to save it locally, open a jpg editor, resize it, upload it, copy the web url and then post to save bandwidth.

Additionally, to prevent distortion, you have to take a larger pic and resize it’s dimensions equally by say one half: 2048x1536 to 1024x768.

Height and width specs in the img tag affect only the size of the picture on your screen not the bytes used to present the image.

Perhaps of interest, a click on a jpeg with the center mouse (scroll) button brings up a “compass” function so you can review a large jpeg (usual default mouse setting).

Many sites offer unlimited bandwidth up to a point. I do not know what FR’s arrangement is as its largely text with occasional pics.

For img size source control the basic format is:

< img src=”http:www.source/yourimg.jpg” height=768 width=1024 >

Note: Omit the space at the brackets for proper formatting.

Just trying to help ... time for breakfast ;-)

[COBOL2Java]

You can size down your photos then they don’t take up so much of FR bandwith. Thanks..

Actually, FR is not affected by the size of the photo at all (unless, of course, the image is actually located on Free Republic's web server, which is highly unlikely).

When a web page loads; it is the browser, at that moment, that gets the image from the source web server (via the "src" attribute of the HTML "img" tag) and inserts it into your web page.

The FR web server passes instructions to your browser; these contain HTML tags, one of which is an "img" tag mentioned above. Your browser downloads these instructions from Free Republic, not the image itself. The "src" attribute in the "img" tag tells your browser where the image is located. Then, your browser uses the information contained in that "src" attribute to request a download of the photo from the host where the image is located (if the image is gone or the address wasn't typed in correctly, you get a busted link and depending on your browser, you can get a red "X").

It's *your* ISP (and secondarily, your computer) which is affected by the bandwidth. Free Republic's web server doesn't care; it's only giving out information on where the image (no matter how BIG you want to make it - via the "size" attribute) can be found.

So regardless of whether you make the image big or small, pretty much the only things that are going to be affected by using a given graphic are:

• The host computer where the image is located (e.g., if 1,000 Freepers hit that poor guy's web server at the same time)

  NOTE: The size you make the image won't matter to him, but slamming his server with lots of requests might

• Your ISP
• Your IT device (laptop, computer, smart phone)
• Your browser

Oh, I might add as a P.S.: making an image GINORMOUS can piss off others on a given thread, because it will make other posts hard to read. It'll wind up pushing everything over to the right.

[catnipman]

“You can size down your photos then they don’t take up so much of FR bandwidth.”

Regardless of size, photos take up zero FR bandwidth because FR does not host photos ... all photos appearing on FR are hosted elsewhere and all the bandwidth to download them comes from the photo hosts ...