Quote Originally Posted by ChromeJob
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HEIGHT and WIDTH values in HTML IMG codes do not change the size of images downloaded the browser, only tell the browser what dimension to display the image at. Browsers rarely size images without a loss in clarity, so the images end up looking crappy. This practice has largely been dropped by professional web designers.
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I am perfectly aware that the scaling was inside the browser (and if you had read my previous post you would have noted that) - however your idea on how the browsers will scale the image "with loss of clarity" wasn't actually a real problem in the last 5-10 years with any decent browser - and the remark on "professional web designers" has nothing to do with the problem at hand where we are not speaking about a classic web site but instead about user-submitted content.