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Originally Posted by Aragon
Modern browsers all resize images to fit the window on the fly (ie6+, firefox 1.5+). I think you will find that over 85% of the forum's viewers are using browsers that do that. To embed outside images would be potentially more harmful because without the forum restricting max resolution, what's to stop someone from embedding an image even larger than 1024x768? An image that is being embedded into a page that is already taking up some screen area, and an image that does not get resized on the fly by modern browsers. I've seen threads here where you have to scroll horizontally because posters embedded huge images into their posts - that instance is far worse than what you are concerned about IMHO.
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This is true, but some disable the auto-resize function (like me). I personally don't like the pixelation which occurs when the browser resizes an image that way without any "smart" resizing - I'd rather take the scrolling. And, yes, there are people that link in larger images than they should, but that's the fault of the user, but does not impact forum bandwidth (or forum storage space) - which seems to be the major concern. Personally, if any image is larger than 800x600 (or thereabouts), I usually use a text link that opens the image instead of directly linking it in.