Image Links Without the Colored Lines

[Kurt W. Wagner | Librarian |]

We see in the preceding post the use of the "width" and "height" 
specification in the image link, which is useful. However, I have 
encountered an aspect of this which is important to consider. Using the 
"width" and "height" tags to take a BIG graphic down to a smaller or even 
"thumbnail" size is not the way to go. Despite the tag, the image is 
loaded at its original size and then displayed at the specified 
dimension. It is important to scale the image down in your graphics 
package and use the dimension tags to "tweak" the size in a small way. 
Otherwise, the page will be slow to load if there is a large graphic that 
you have minimized (so you think) using the "width" and "height" tags.

Kurt

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