Re: FN-FORUM: OT smallest website ever?

date posted 18th January 2007 13:46

webmetric wrote:
>> I use it a lot for displaying odd sized images in galleries etc. - if
>> you make your container a fixed size and slap the image in as a
>> background, centered, with 50% 50% or center center it will show the
>> central portion of the image only as big as the box...
>>
>
> Glad I started the thread now, worth it just for that tip.
>

by extension, if you slap the image as a background on a fluid
width/height box then as the box grows more of the image will be exposed.

it's one of the tricks I forecast we'll see much more of in 2007 -
smaller resolution screens see part of the image, wider screens get more
pretties to look at.

;o)