RE: Feature Request - Thumbnails

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[quote="loxly"]Beleive me I have tried all the packages. Image Majik, Netpbm, gd.  And most rquire safe mode off.
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You're right of course.  But what about a client side solution?

How about a client side ActiveX control that resizes the image before uploading.  Then fills in the form with two (or more?) images to upload & posts it to the server.  LeadTools ($$) has an ActiveX control that will do this.  But, I think there's an OS package (I'm sure I've seen it, but can't remember its name) out there that'd do the same thing.  We'd just have to add a little JavaScript to make it do its thing (and add some extra db & form handling code in the SS stuff.  It would only work for Windows users, but that's about 90% of my user base.

Whatdya think?

Actually this may be a better solution, than doing it server side, since all of the grunt work is done by your local machine -- saves any charges ($.000001?) you might pay for those extra CPU cycles.  (I get all the upload bandwidth I want, but I do have to pay for CPU time if I go over my limit.)