LJ automatic image-resizing unwanted [SOLVED]

[portisheart]

hi ^^

i noticed this yesterday, but it might have happened a while ago - i just didn't see it.
obviously, LJ (recently?) does resize images when they don't have BOTH width & height specified..?

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[denig37]

bookmarking this because I have the same problem, hopefully somebody knows a solution (or LJ gets its shit together, which I doubt, sadly)

[portisheart]

"or LJ gets its shit together, which I doubt, sadly"

yeah, especially since this rule doesn't make much sense for me in the context of my entry.
i can understand somehow when HUGE pics get downsized, the overflowing over the entry border isn't exactly beautiful and breaking layouts by creating xtra wide entries (when you use tables i think?) you have to scroll 3x across isn't either. take it that some unskilled users uploading megapix wouldn't explicitely want this to happen (some do!) and wouldn't know how to mend it..okeeee. big B LJ helps.
but these here are very small pics, they don't break anything.
only explanation i can figure why they came up with this "feature" is: i think that in xtml some rules are stricter, hence you'd need BOTH width & height of an image to be specified ~

[portisheart]

erhrm.. this must be the most pathetic help search of my life.
there is an option for this in the customizing panel:
here

though, for my defense, i swear i never saw it. either i totally oversaw it as i opened my LJ back in 2009.. or this option has been added later. after i wrote the entry, which seemed to be ok as i wrote it...
i found it per chance, looking for something else :/

[denig37]

Definitely new...Damn LJ and it's effing unwanted changes!
Now they don't even warn before they make them.