Q:

Image resize (client side)

I own web photo print service, main problem is that pictures users upload are twice in size (megabytes) than those I need to print them in standard photo size. Bandwidth and disk space is not a problem, what IS a problem is time it takes to upload them (for user).
If photo from camera is 2-3MB I wish to resize them somehow in half to about 1-1.5MB, that means it will upload 2x faster. Is this possible and with what technology? JAVA maybe? Thanks.

A:

I'm pretty sure Flash allows for file access without requiring a "would you like to run this untrusted code" nagbox; IIRC Facebook has a Flash photo uploader. I think Java may also support this, but Flash is a bit more ubiquitous.

