From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:02:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Avoid overflowing page body frame with large images
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1402071458040.15645@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <85BCA9A4-5EC3-4488-A4E4-4F86739B6450@kellerfarm.com>

Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> wrote:
>
> With that said, I don't think it's unreasonable for a software project
> to contain images larger than a browser window.  And, when that happens,
> I'm pretty confident that the default behavior should be to scale the
> image down so the user can see the whole thing.

Right. And if you want to see the unscaled version of the image you can
view the blob_plain version instead of the (scaled html-wrapped) blob.

Seems sensible in principle to me but I have not reviewed the code.

Tony.
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