Image size

I’d love to be able to add every feature people ask for, but I simply don’t have the time or the energy.

When I started writing this plugin, it was felt that browsers could not be trusted to do a good enough job on resizing the image. Nowadays, they probably can be, so the ability to allow the browser to shrink the image to a limited extent was added recently. But it’s still possible to create artefacts in an image when downsizing, so it’s always safest to let the photographer do the job themselves.

Also, resizing on the server could potentially cause problems for clubs without the best hosting plans, and uploading a larger image than is required could cause issues for users with less than the best internet service. I think it’s also still true that not all hosting providers would automatically have software available to do a good job on the resizing.

But things change all the time, and I gather it may now be possible, with the right browser, to do the resizing on the user’s machine before the upload. That would be ideal, if it could be done to a good enough quality. So I’ll put that on my list to look into further if and when I can find the time.

Thanks Josie