Just stumbled across this while updating my copy of Greased Lightbox, a fantastic GreaseMonkey script (for all you Firefox users out there.) It’s called Smart Image Resizer, and it’s a great piece of PHP that can resize images on the fly without modifying the original. Very very cool.
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There is no need to host CPU-intensive thumbnailing scripts like this on your webserver anymore. Instead, you can use a specialized service for remote, on-demand image manipulation like SteadyOffload.
All you have to do is use a custom HTML attribute called “xmanip†with the img tag. This will deliver the thumbnail from one of the globally scattered cache servers:
<img srcx=â€image.jpg†xmanip=â€RescaleWidth 130″ />
So much easier than all the hassle with GD or ImageMagick! Moreover, this reduces the CPU load of your webserver and saves some bandwidth.
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..
Now that is very cool. Thanks!