[thelist] Image Size Included in Image Tag

[Jay Fitzgerald]

If you are using XHTML coding standard such as this:
<img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="Image" title="Image" />

ALWAYS place the width and heigh in your image tags. The reason for this
is that the server does not have to work as hard when trying to parse
your code. If all your HTML variables are included and enclosed in
double quotes, the server knows that that information has to be
"handled". I found this out the hard way.

HTH
Jay




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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [thelist] Image Size Included in Image Tag


> If I create an image to the size I want it, are there any reasons why 
> I have to include the "height & width" of the image in the "img" tag?
> 
> EX:
> <img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="Image" title="Image" />
> vs.
> <img src="images/image1.jpg" height="150" width="150" alt="Image" 
> title="Image" />

Its up to you. The advantage of image sizes is that the display doesn¹t
shuffle around whilst waiting for the images to load. Its still a good
idea in navigations but other than that its up to you. If the image is
under 2Kb you can probably ignore sizes.

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