Uploadify and Image Compression

Question

I am using Uploadify on one of my client\'s web sites to allow them to upload a large amount of pictures at once to their photo gallery.

I am seeing issues lately.

Answer 1

You won't be able to compress JPG images much using zip or similar algorithms - they are already close to optimum in themselves. You'd have to resize them on client side. For that, see e.g.

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