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Lee Prior
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Username: Leeprior

Post Number: 1
Registered: 04-2007
Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 12:37 pm:   

When sending an MMS containing an image, I would like to have it scaled to the maximum screen size of the target device. I have used the scaling options in NowSMS but nothing results in a fullscreen image.

Our Sony Ericsson test phone shows small borders, but has the ability to show the image fullsize in its picture viewer.

The MMS is sent programmatically through the NowSMS HTTP GET interface.

My question is whether this behavior is a result of the SMIL generated by NowSMS, or simply the way that phones handle pictures contained within MMS messages.

Many Thanks,
Lee
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 7121
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 01:33 pm:   

Hi Lee,

I've always assumed that it was just quirks of the MMS clients in the phones.

You might want to experiment with alternate SMIL, but the SMIL that we use is pretty basic. And it even indicates that the image should use 100% width and 100% height of the screen. So I wouldn't really know what else to try as an experiment.

An example of our default SMIL is here:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/15523.html

That example just shows a video file ... change the video tag to img for an image. (Or text ... or audio ... as appropriate)

-bn