[BNM] In search of efficiency (as ever!)

[paul perrin]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I am really looking for a minimum moving
parts solution -- an image is dropped in to a directory to be used as a
button (whatever size) and everything just works - drop in another image
(anysize) - and it continues to just work.

Forcing the div to the size of the image can be done with a foreground
image; I may take a look at using a very large image map (bigger than the
image it overlays) - if browsers crop the map to the size of the actual
image this may do what I want.

Cheers all

Paul


On 03/08/07, andrew holway <andrew at moonet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> Depending on your platform you might want to consider normalising the
> images. You can shove them thru an server side CLI app called
> image-magick. This makes sure they are at a standard size to prevent
> you having to scale stuff on the site which to be honest is just a
> bloody nightmare.
>
> There are a few other progs that do a similar job
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
> On 03/08/07, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Dan
> >
> > My main objective is to allow image files to be freely swapped in a site
> > without having to modify anyother files (html etc).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 30/07/07, Dan Eastwell <daneastwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > What are you trying to achieve from a functional spec point of view? I
> > > don't
> > > think what you're proposing is possible as you state it, but maybe you
> > > could
> > > achieve the same effect with a different method.
> > >
> > > On 7/29/07, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There are two javascripty type things I would like to do - without
> using
> > > > javascript but keeping cross browser compatiblity - which may not be
> > > > possible - unless someone knows better...
> > > >
> > > > 1) Use a background image for a DIV in such away that the DIV will
> > > > automatically scale to the size of the image (dynamic properties in
> MSIE
> > > > make this easy - but not portable).
> > > > 2) Make a DIV a clickable link without using 'onclick' - I was kind
> of
> > > > thinking about an image map with an area that picks up its coords
> from
> > > the
> > > > dimensions of its container...
> > > >
> > > > Rather than use JS I could generate the code at delivery time using
> ASP
> > > or
> > > > ASP.NET, but would rather it was done in HTML/CSS etc.
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