Help, my browser's resizing images!

March 16, 2005 8:51 AM

Hello all. I have a problem that on some sites that hotlink images directly to me, the images are coming to me resized. For example, the page is doing a width="500" on every image, making larger images smaller, and smaller images larger. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Happens in both IE and FF. And I'm not talking about the automatic image resizing option.

Thank you!

posted by eas98 to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Response by poster: Argh! I got the more inside wrong. Sorry.
posted by eas98 at 8:51 AM on March 16, 2005

You could probably make/find a bookmarklet that cycles through all images and clears all width and height attributes.
posted by zsazsa at 8:57 AM on March 16, 2005

Hotlink images directly to me? I'm sorry but I don't understand (and I think I can help, if you clarify that part.. Are we talking about hotlinks?)
posted by dabitch at 10:27 AM on March 16, 2005

Response by poster: Imagine a page that shows a bunch of images hotlinked from other sites.

for example something like this:

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Welcome to my page. Here are my pretty pictures for today:

http://www.metafilter.com/image1.jpg
http://www.somewhere.com/image2.jpg
http://www.else.com/image3.jpg
http://www.maybe.com/image4.jpg
http://www.here.com/image5.jpg
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(of course, you don't see the urls, you only see the pictures)

Only, instead of showing them directly in their full size, it's resizing them all with a width=500. I want to see them all in their natural size.
posted by eas98 at 12:04 PM on March 16, 2005

Best answer: I just made a bookmarklet that does it. It will reset image sizes set either by a 'width="xxx"' attribute or a 'width: xxx' CSS rule. Note that the link above is to a page with the actual bookmarklet in it.
posted by zsazsa at 12:27 PM on March 16, 2005

Response by poster: Oh yes! Thank you very much!! :D
posted by eas98 at 12:36 PM on March 16, 2005