viewing HTML shrunken images

March 21, 2008 4:26 AM

On the blue, delmoi pointed out that the images of an online comic had been shrunk via HTML to fit the page. Is there a greasemonkey script or something that would allow those images to be seen fullsize without having to think about it?
posted by Sparx to computers & internet (11 comments total)

Right click - View Image
posted by unixrat at 5:03 AM on March 21, 2008

Unixrat: While that undoubtedly does the job, it also removes the navigation, which would become tiresome after multiple pages.
posted by Sparx at 5:07 AM on March 21, 2008

You could set your own style sheet for the site (there are a number of plugins that let you do that) and use this css:
img {height:100%;}
posted by FreezBoy at 5:42 AM on March 21, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

I use the ImageZoom add-on in FireFox to fix these types of problems.
posted by burnmp3s at 5:48 AM on March 21, 2008

Pic Lens is a project that mefi's own jeffamaphone is working on. If there's a media RSS feed, it should work, and sexily.
posted by mumkin at 6:52 AM on March 21, 2008

In response to another AskMe question a while ago, I wrote a bookmarklet that does just what you're asking for.
posted by zsazsa at 6:56 AM on March 21, 2008

I cut'n'pasted a load of lines into a .html page, like this:

<img src="http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ01/oq01-3.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ01/oq01-4.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ01/oq01-5.jpg"/>

and dropped the html page into my browser. Ungainly, but you get one long page you can easily scroll down to read.

I also gave up after the second comic. That stuff was bad.
posted by Leon at 7:08 AM on March 21, 2008

I was having the same trouble with the Elfquest site. I turned off the page's CSS (View > Page Style > No Style) and the images showed up full-size.
posted by kryptondog at 7:36 AM on March 21, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

(In Firefox, btw)
posted by kryptondog at 7:36 AM on March 21, 2008

You could set your own style sheet for the site (there are a number of plugins that let you do that) and use this css:
img {height:100%;}

Wouldn't that set the image height to the containing block, rather than to the full size of the image file?
posted by odinsdream at 7:42 AM on March 21, 2008

Thanks for all the help, hive mind. Kryptondog did exactly what I needed, but zsazsa has made it into my favourites for being generally super useful.

Shade and sweet water to you all...
posted by Sparx at 1:38 AM on March 22, 2008