[Javascript] Resizing images client-side

[Rakesh Pai]

Agreed, Hassan... Terry, there's no way anything can determine the
file size until it has access to the complete file. There's no
standard headers to a file to read from.

And tedd, in a similar vein, there's no way you can be sure of the
file size. You could use ActiveX (maybe Java or Flash, but I've never
used those) to find out before-hand, but you limit that code to
MS/Java installed/Flash installed clients, as everyone's pointed out.
So ultimately, you cannot do away with a reliability check on the
server.

If I were you, I would implement an ActiveX based solution to trap the
issue on the client when possible, and then check on the server
anyway.

That's my 2 cents.

On 7/14/07, Hassan Schroeder <hassan at webtuitive.com> wrote:
> Terry Riegel wrote:
>
> > PHP only knows about the files after they are uploaded. This is why upload
> > scripts are usually either ASP or PERL.
>
> ? And through what mystical process would a program written in *any*
> language running on a remote server peek into the file system of the
> user's machine and determine the file size *before* it's uploaded? :-)
>
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