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Skriven 2004-08-24 13:53:16 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
    Kommentar till text 110 av Jasen Betts (3:640/1042)
Ärende: Thumbnails?
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 AM>> 2) Generating the thumbnails and leaving them around on the website
 AM>> either in a thumbnail directory or with a munged name like so:

 AM>>     <img src="/thumb/tn_some.jpg">

 JB> Put then in a directory called .xvpics off the directory where
 JB> the real file lives.  (this is where xv, and zgv, (and many
 JB> other) linux (and I'm assuming unix) picture viewers store
 JB> their thumbnails

gimp is among those, too... i was surprised to see those directories on a win
box running the win version of gimp...

creating the thumbs (and microthumbs) one time is the best for speed reasons...
why keep recreating that which only need be created once and is displayed many
times?

 AM>> In the past I've used a combination, where if the thumbnail
 AM>> already existed on disk (with a munged name) then display
 AM>> the thumbnail. otherwise, generate it on the fly, but the
 AM>> generation CGI would leave the thumbnail on disk for future
 AM>> use.  I'm beginning to think that un-cluttering the directory
 AM>> tree would be a good thing, and CPU not used is CPU wasted,
 AM>> therefore I should start generating thumbnails dynamically
 AM>> each time the page is viewed.

 AM>> Comments/thoughts/ideas, please?

 JB> Unused cpu is cpu wasted, but how much CPU can you spare, how
 JB> much traffic do you want to be able to handle. by storing
 JB> thumbnails you can serve more users or use a slower CPU

true to a point ;)

)\/(ark

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