RE: Feature Request - Thumbnailing

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I don’t agree with your mentality. Your argument doesn’t make much sense and to the contrary it seams that you would find something wrong with the best of ideas. 

[quote="loxly"] All create web galleries that include watermarking images, creating thumbnails and large images. [/quote] 

Do theses programs interface with OsCom? No? Oh… So I guess you don’t have an Ecom solution using these products. Since there are so many other ways of doing things, then why use osCom at all? This is in essence what you are saying.

[quote="loxly"]If *you* have a server that allows you to do this on the fly, more power to you. If not, do it offline, ftp the images up and be even more professional. [/quote]

I hate this popular misconception that you need to be on a dedicated server to do this kind of stuff. Well I don’t host my site with GeoCities, maybe you should consider switching hosts because I’ve written software for clients that do this type of thing for up to a couple hundred photo’s daily and no major load on the server. Actually the average CPU load is at 1-2% with what I would image are hundreds of other website on their shared service.

Honestly I hate this popular misconception. It’s one thing to be talking ~on the fly~ OR even batch (yes I admit it’s a strain on a server) but interactive processing isn’t going to create a problem for most people.