Re: New archives for testing

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Well, that's what I'm considering, but inlining screenshots at high
>> resolutions is going to look Really Bad... But yes, the idea would be
>> to parse out the resolution from the metadata somehow.
>
> I would be more concerned with the file size. You don't want someone
> to be able to make an archive page send a hapless viewer a 100M image
> file. Luckily file size doesn't require parsing the meta data.
>
> Can you not deal with the image size by just sticking a css attribute
> for max-height and max-width on the inlined image?

That's certainly another option - limit it by size that way, and then
limiting it by filesize for whether we include it or not. We can even
give it scrollbars, I guess. That does make even more sense.

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