PictureWindow Overview
Deciding how to include images on an informational site can be tough: do you place them on the page and force the reader to download them whether she's interested or not, or add a link to the image and force her to leave the page? PictureWindow is a simple utility that offers an 'in-between' solution: a link that opens the image in a correctly-sized window when clicked. Clicking inside the image window closes it again. The clickable link can be a form-style button, mouse-reactive text or an image (perhaps a thumbnail of the linked image?). PictureWindow is ideal for providing optional pictures of products along with descriptions, screenshots of software in HTML documentation, or letting users view full-sized images by selecting from a page of thumbnails. The textual link can be easily placed inline in a paragraph of text, and our unique Testmode feature makes it easy to set the correct applet dimensions for the text or image link. To ensure that your pages load quickly, an image is downloaded only if the reader clicks the appropriate link. |