Re: image clipping problem

Crossposted and follow up set to
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

Andy Baxter <news4 (AT) earthsong (DOT) null.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

I still don't get why this concept is 'fatally flawed'. The only reason I
can see why images this large are a problem is because of the download
time, but even for the extra-large version I'm working with at the moment,
the download takes about 20-30 secs on a broadband connection, which is
acceptable to me. I accept that on a modem, this image would be too slow,
but then for that, I'm planning to give people a choice of using lower
resolution images. E.g.

100 pixels high gives an 11K file, which would be fine on a 56K modem
(about 3-4 seconds download)

170 pixels high gives a 31K file, which would still be OK over a modem.

400 pixels high at 50% quality gives a 182K file, which would be fine over
broadband.

I didn't think that the image size would come down enough, but having
tried it is indeed acceptable.

I don't have an understanding of the clip property, nor of javascript,
but afaics the issue you referred to doesn't relate to either.

Using a reduced test case, setting overflow to hidden seems to resolve
your problem: http://homepage.ntlworld.ie/spartanicus/panorama.htm
I had to use an extra div due to browser bugs, the above demo seems to
work in the big three (IE, Opera and Gecko based browsers).

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Spartanicus said:

Crossposted and follow up set to
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

I didn't think that the image size would come down enough, but having
tried it is indeed acceptable.

I don't have an understanding of the clip property, nor of javascript,
but afaics the issue you referred to doesn't relate to either.

Using a reduced test case, setting overflow to hidden seems to resolve
your problem: http://homepage.ntlworld.ie/spartanicus/panorama.htm
I had to use an extra div due to browser bugs, the above demo seems to
work in the big three (IE, Opera and Gecko based browsers).

Many thanks for your help - I've now got it working nicely. The new
version is online at:

http://lofty.dyndns.info/pano/pano-test.html

if you're interested.

cheers,

andy

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