zoomable userpics/icons

[kjwcode]

Title:
zoomable userpics/icons

Area:
userpics/icons

Summary:
Show userpics/icons as 100x100 in posts, but allow the viewer to zoom in/blow up the icon to see detail, etc.

Description:
Many of my icons are comic panels, and at 100x100px the text can get *really* small. I'd like to be able to use the icons and when people are interested in what they say, they can click on the icon (or do some other intuitive thing) to see a bigger version (limited by image disk-space size) where the text is readable, etc.

Poll #8381 zoomable userpics/icons

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56

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Should be implemented as-is.
3 (5.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
10 (17.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
19 (33.9%)

(I have no opinion)
22 (39.3%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.6%)

Comments

[arethinn]

But what if you've never used that feature, because you've always made sure that your images were no bigger than 100x100? You'd have to upload two images...

I would assume in that case that there would simply be no "click to embiggen" link generated. Or it would just link to the 100x100 because that's all there is.

[cheyinka]

To me that feels a little unfair for those people who do their cropping and/or resizing on their own machines, but who might still appreciate a way to show people the original size of the image.