Smaller previews in Safari

andy.nico · Nov 3, 2006

Hello there,

Firstly i'd like to appologise because i bet this is a stupid question and i will probably explain it very badly but here goes ...

Is there some way of, when you click on a web link on a site and it opens up a picture in the browser, viewing the whole picture? For example if i open a picture taken on something like a 9MP camera the picture opens up massive and you have to scroll across the pop up window to view the whole thing wheras im sure windows opens the picture big then sort of scales it down so it fits into the window properly. Does that make any sense?

Its been bugging me for ages now and wondered if there was some way around it.

Hope someone can help, thanks!

Andy:bomb:

NanoBite · Nov 3, 2006

andy.nico said:
Hello there,

Firstly i'd like to appologise because i bet this is a stupid question and i will probably explain it very badly but here goes ...

Is there some way of, when you click on a web link on a site and it opens up a picture in the browser, viewing the whole picture? For example if i open a picture taken on something like a 9MP camera the picture opens up massive and you have to scroll across the pop up window to view the whole thing wheras im sure windows opens the picture big then sort of scales it down so it fits into the window properly. Does that make any sense?

Its been bugging me for ages now and wondered if there was some way around it.

Hope someone can help, thanks!

Andy:bomb:

Hi andi.nico,

I think I know what you mean, I hope, but if you're talking about having more control over your own pictures which you may have uploaded, then what about the export feature in iPhoto?

You can export the size that suits you, and eliminate those annoying large photos that are way too big to fit the average browser....

I hope I am on the right track...

andy.nico · Nov 3, 2006

Thats kinda what i mean ... its not MY photo's that i want to scale its pictures that are already on the net. Like say i look up example photo's taken on the K800i mobile phone. They are 3mp pictures so when Safari opens them (providing whoever posted the picture posted it full size) it will open up in a new window (or tab if thats what you click) but it is a massive picture that doesnt fit on the screen and Windows scales it down so you can see the whole image wheras im not sure if the Mac does.

Thanks for the quick reply!
Hopefully that now makes more sense ... hehe

NanoBite · Nov 3, 2006

internet explorer 6 has auto image resizing and I think you are looking for the same in Mac.

I can't find anything on the web but that means nought!

Can you post a link so I can check an oversize image myself.....

andy.nico · Nov 3, 2006

http://www.mobilmania.cz/Article/BigImgGSMNew.asp?path=%2FFiles%2FObrazky%2Fart20%2F3Mpx%2FSonyEricsson_K800i&file=%2F03.JPG

That for example is MAHOOSIVE!

NanoBite · Nov 3, 2006

andy.nico said:
http://www.mobilmania.cz/Article/BigImgGSMNew.asp?path=%2FFiles%2FObrazky%2Fart20%2F3Mpx%2FSonyEricsson_K800i&file=%2F03.JPG

That for example is MAHOOSIVE!

MAHOOSIVE is an understatement, it's HUMUNGOUSLY MAHOOSIVELY BIG!

How about this.......click and hold on the pic and then drag it to your desktop. Double-click on the file and it'll open in Preview. Go to the View menu and select "Zoom To Fit"......

That's the best I can offer....

andy.nico · Nov 3, 2006

Thats a bit of a mission isnt it - its no biggie really i'm just surprised Safari can't do it in a browser to save all that fiddling.
Ah well.

NanoBite · Nov 3, 2006

andy.nico said:
Thats a bit of a mission isnt it - its no biggie really i'm just surprised Safari can't do it in a browser to save all that fiddling.
Ah well.

I'm not saying it isn't possible, just I don't know how to do it like you expect.

cazabam · Nov 3, 2006

There are two things preventing me from using Safari full time (I use Firefox instead) - a shortcut key to get to the 'search' box in the top right, and image scaling. Every other browser allows this - I'm not sure why Safari hasn't gained this at some point.

puaerotch · Nov 3, 2006

On most images you can right click and there is an option to "Scale to fit". In this case however, for some reason it wont work. If you right click on it and select Open in new tab/window then go to that new tab/window, it will give you the scale to fit option