Explorer 6 and graphic resizing

[tedster]

I knew I would run into it sooner or later -- the new "feature" in MSIE that resizes graphics that are too big for the window. But what I found seems less problematic than I feared.

I have one site that features a lot of screenshots of software. In a hurry-up job, I created some quick links to the isolated gif files, instead of creating an html file for each image. That is, the links look like this: <a href="screenshot.gif" target="_blank">

When Explorer 6 opens the new window, the graphic is scaled to fit (and is unreadable). However, when I create HTML pages with the same graphic, including width and height attributes, no downscaling occurs -- I get scrollbars instead.

I'm wondering if anyone else has run into IE6's downscaling behavior in any other context. If it just happens on links that go directly to the image file, then it's easy enough to cope with.

[Brett_Tabke]

There are going to be some people in the picture gallery business who are upset. I've seen some heated talk about it on both sides. It sounds like this may be an option in the final 6.