Loading Pictures on the Forum Project

[Leon]

The response from the engineer. We have the IMageMagic 6 installed now but I don't see any difference....I told them that and here is what they said. I will probably have them put in the line of code. Any thoughts?


"My understanding of the issue that you are concerned about here (there are a few different ones in that thread) is that when someone hotlinks an image from another site using the IMG tag, it can mess up the vBulletin formatting if that image is too large.

This problem is only fixable by changing the code which is sent to the viewers webpage and having their computer dynamically resize the image as they view the page. Your server can’t resize the image since your server never sees the image – the IMG code instead tells the user viewing the page to go to another server to get the image.

Usually, I’d recommend finding a plugin that does this, but
1) Finding a reputable site for plugins that old would be difficult and
2) I don’t even know if plugins were a thing in v3.

Doing some searching it seems like you aren’t the only one to run into this problem and someone has posted a possible solution here:
https://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/web...ed-images.html

Looking over the code I don’t see any problem with it, and it does what you need – it tells the users browser to resize the image down to a width of 800 pixels if it’s bigger than that and gives the user an option to click the image to see it at its regular size. You can adjust the pixel width to whatever works best for your users.

Because it only modifies the width though I have a feeling it may cause images to get distorted because it won’t also resize the height, but how that’s handled is really up to the user’s browser and you have no control over it. Trying to dynamically modify both the width and height of the image to scale properly and be under a certain size would require a lot more code (and probably JavaScript).

Keep in mind we are server administrators and not developers – normally we would decline requests to modify code. As this is changing a single line and I don’t see an issue with it we can make this change for you if you’d like, but I can’t give you any guarantees on if this will be a suitable fix for you."


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