The other day in my class, a student asked why we can’t just use the width and height attributes of the img tag to resize photos to make thumbnails.
Here’s a page that shows not. So these people are selling a (goofy?) product. Presumably they don’t want to piss me, a potential customer, off. So they include a gallery of photos and make all the images thumbnails.
Except they didn’t bother to actually make thumbnails. So now, when I visit this page, the browser actually downloads ALL the images IN FULL and they rely on my browser to do all the resizing, slowing the page loading down even more.
It would take probably 30 minutes at the most to resize all these photos (and that’s very generous); for the cost of half an hour, I’m guessing most customers ditch the page without bothering for the images to load.
