Image Streaming
A new approach to online picture management.

So... you have a photo you want online.

This normally means you'll have to create multiple copies of the photo in Thumb, Medium, Large, and even Extra Large sizes. Then they'll all need to be uploaded, and manually coded into the site.

Why not treat all that as an "image stream"?

The images could be enclosed in a compressed folder with an XML index file. The image set could be placed on your site like so:

<img src="images.pxz" width="100%" height="100%">

Then, if the dimensions of the parent element change, the browser would request a different size from the server.

This can be accomplished via certain server-side scripting methods, but the ideal would be native browser support for this new image-stream approach.