Quote Originally Posted by Hero View Post
Another downside of pictures that large is that they make scrolling through the thread quite cumbersome on older computers. This is because CiC isn't realy resizing the picture, it just tells your browser to scale the picture down. So the cpu-load is for the client computer, not the webserver on which CiC runs.
This is very true, your browser does download 'the big picture', but the sizes we were recommending (upto 1600 w x 1000 h), this isn't too bad for most people.

Occasionally, I do like to peruse a nice large Pano like Rob's though