Suggestion :

Odd times, people post pics that were a reasonable size on the source page, but they are actually HUGE! so, what about limiting them to the width of a standard page?

just let ppl be arses. the odd pic can be edited/modded to have a width attribute in the img tag if needed.

I mean, that's the continuing message on ILX, isn't it? Certain persons seem to be able to continue to do whatever they like, and there's ulimately very little that anyone can do to stop them.

So, you know, ultimately, if it's OK for *them* continue acting like pricks, then it must be OK for *me* to act the same way.

Everyone has a limit. Maybe I've finally reached mine.

Yeah, mark, the image posting thing is a little can of worms all its own just like any embedded HTML.

Sometimes the source page is using the width and height attributes to constrain an otherwise huge image. When the image gets linked to ILX, the poster usually doesn't keep those same attributes, so the real size of the image is revealed as huge. (If you want to doublecheck for this before it happens to you, you can take the URL of the image and just put it directly into the browser to take a look before you post it. You'll be able to see if the image is really big if you view it outside of the context of the source page.)

Alan already said it, but basically having the server check image width could get kinda intensive. Not to mention that if the server wants to do it gracefully, it'd also have to calculate values to resize on the fly without changing the aspect ratio of the original pic and stretching or crunching it.

If there is a good solution along these lines, Jon's idea is probably the closest. Though to have the server give warnings for large images would still require it to take a look at every image and analyze it.

to have the server give warnings for large images would still require it to take a look at every image and analyze it.

when you do "ihttp" it already does this.

I never use "ihttp." I'm just used to img tags cause it's what I do all day long. Of course I also use height and width to keep the images from being huge when necessary, and I'll even host images on my own site so I can edit them when I need to, so I guess I'm not the average image-posting user.

(try going to the test board and posting ihttp links to either this or this.)

The obvious next step here is to deny hand-crafted 'img' tags, which I will do after a bit more testing.